Eleftherios Venizelos Quotes

People with children can never be good revolutionaries.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

I am still radical!

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

You can't just be a revolutionary for 40 or 50 years. That means compromising.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.

I was more interested in journalism and fact-finding than other things, so I didn't plan to work 30 years as a lawyer.

As a revolutionary, I don't just want to sit by and say, "Oh this feels good, let's just do it." I'm going to die for what I believe in and stand for it.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

I am not super-attached to my career.

One day I woke up, and I felt like I knew I wanted to be an analyst and a broadcaster.

I have decided to create a new political movement.

The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop.

I know what my causes are. And I care about them, so I'd rather get out there and talk about them than just play it safe.

You know, I think the idea of activism, more so a revolutionary mindset, is something that has been with me for most of my life, especially since I was about 16 years old.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer.

There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

I have got two paths - one to go into the media, the other to go into coaching and management. I have got offers from both.

I have always maintained that my concentration is only on my career and on nothing else.

I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.

People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.

My father believed in armed struggle.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.