Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
Revolutionary Leaders quotes
Revolutionary Leaders
7 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher, Political Theorist
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
Steve Saint
Author, Speaker
"Christianity is an extreme call to a radical life following a revolutionary leader."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action. What distinguishes revolutionary leaders from the dominant elite is not only their objectives, but their procedures."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims."
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"To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders."
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"To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders."
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