#revolutionary

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#first #foremost #french #me #revolutionary

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

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed. ↗

— Saunders Lewis

#less #means #nothing #only #restoring

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. ↗

— Johann Most

#based #calls #communist #conditions #himself

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development. ↗

— Johann Most

#deed #development #every #more #point

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor. ↗

— John Prescott

#better #brought #deaths #factor #flow

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be "revolutionary" but not transformative. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#every #feeling #formless #inadequate #language

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#desire #even #how #kill #live

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#awful #because #century #demagoguery #history

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists