And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me,...

Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditative...

But when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out.

To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology...

Violent revolution fails because it is not revolutionary enough. It changes the rulers but not the rules, the ends but not the means. Most of the old androcratic values and delusional assumptions remain intact.

Is it a coincidence that stories from the private life became more popular just as the grand hope for public redemption through revolution was beginning to sour? I witnessed a similar shift in taste in...

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that...

Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness,...

Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You

Fantasy. Lunacy.All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

Ferbin’s father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the very poor and downtrodden really needed religion, to make their laborious lives more...

Don’t call yourself discouraged anymore;it’s no longer your name.

Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.

Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind … when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal...

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

La Révolution est Dieu détrôné et l’homme à sa place.

We fought an entire army with a bouquet of flowers back in the ’70’sBut now you’re taught to remain without will until you run out of energyAfraid that if you strive for an ideal you...

Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman...

You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Every death even the cruelest deathdrowns in the total indifference of NatureNature herself would watch unmovedif we destroyed the entire human raceI hate Naturethis passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-facethat can bear everythingthis goads us to...

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Then the lion stares at it. It stares at its prey. Like this.’ (Old Antonio frowns and fastens his black eyes on me.) ‘The poor little animal that is going to die just looks. It...

By far the most important consequence of the conceptual revolution brought about in physics by relativity and quantum theory lies not in such details as that meter sticks shorten when they move or that simultaneous...

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

Revolution is simple. It’s like a breath; out with the old, and in with the new.

But one doesn’t wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Reform is China’s second revolution.

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

The presence of the Lord destroys a life of struggle. You will struggle until you encounter His presence.

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in...

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

There are those special projects that don’t ever feel like work but just a blessing to be a part of, and ‘Revolution’ is one of those projects.

Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should...

in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution.

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

Salah besar orang yang mengatakan revolusi kita belum selesai. Revolusi adalah letusan masyarakat sekonyong-konyong yang melaksanakan Umwertung aller Werte (penilaian kembali atas semua nilai). Revolusi mengguncang lantai dan sendi; pasak dan tiang longgar semuanya. Sebab...

Revolution doesn’t have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to...

But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on...

All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil.The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking in this crisis, still subterranean, but already perceptible. The...

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there’s one thing we need to focus on, it’s redesigning our educational systems.

We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it...

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!