Revolutionary

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A Revolutionary is a person who desires a revolution.



References

2015

  • (Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary Retrieved:2015-1-30.
    • A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. [1] Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.

1903

  • (Shaw, 1903) ⇒ George Bernard Shaw. (1903). “Man and Superman."
    • QUOTE: A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

      The constitution of England is revolutionary. To a Russian or Anglo-Indian bureaucrat, a general election is as much a revolution as a referendum or plebiscite in which the people fight instead of voting. The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist. Every genuine religious person is a heretic and therefore a revolutionist. All who achieve real distinction in life begin as revolutionists. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older, though they are commonly supposed to become more conservative owing to their loss of faith in conventional methods of reform. Any person under the age of thirty, who, having any knowledge of the existing social order, is not a revolutionist, is an inferior.

      And Yet - Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. [1]