Definition of Revolutionary

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Definition of Revolutionary
	Revolutionary Of or pertaining to a revolution in government; tending to, or promoting, revolution; as, revolutionary war; revolutionary measures; revolutionary agitators. A revolutionist. Related Definitions: As, Government, In, Of, Or, Pertaining, Promoting, Revolution, Revolutionary, Revolutionist, Tending, To, War

Revolutionary Quotations

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
Abraham Lincoln

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
Albert Camus

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous Huxley

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir Lenin

Revolutionary Translations

revolutionary in Dutch is revolutionair
revolutionary in Spanish is revolucionario

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