#revolutionaries

The function of the artist is to disturb...In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution--the principle of life...He is the creative spirit working in the soul of man. ↗

— Dr. Norman Bethune

#creative-process #creativity #inspirational #revolutionaries #change

Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#heart #his #i #mind #revolutionaries

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#lying #make #pick #power #revolutionaries

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#become #frozen #longer #overthrow #revolution

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#generals #i #knights #like #middle

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter. ↗

— Bill Mollison

#gardens #revolution #revolutionaries #change

We are revolutionaries. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner. ↗

— Laura Dern

#artists #consummate #hope #i #love

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine