A man doesn’t have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product...

Rituals are missing nowadays

Ce tout petit changement avait été une révolution.

There is a difference between having your own movement and cutting yourself off politically from all other movements. This last form of feminist isolationism is attractive in its simplicity. It appears to offer an option...

The history of our country has taught us, above all, the virtue of patience. It will be many generations before we can have the conditions we seek.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

You’d like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn’t you, Comrade Sergeant?’ said Reg encouragingly.’I’d like a hard-boiled egg,’ said Vimes, shaking the match out.There was some nervous laughter, but Reg looked offended.’In the circumstances, Sergeant, I...

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolution. a humanist r/evolution. r/evolution is not about bloodshed or about going to the mountains and fighting. we will...

The revolution of 1789 had no other goal than absolute access to the writing of legal statutes and the systematic destruction of customary institutions. It resulted in a state of permanent revolution because the mobility...

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism’s importance in maintaining the current system.

Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver your family, your country, business, profession or even your church!

In a struggle against a revolutionary idea it is only possible to use ideological elements which are a thousand times more radical, or adopt principles which represent a total reaction against them.

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young...

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

An army of the people is invincible!

Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is...

On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and...

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it’s a product of the scientific revolution.

Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.

There were corpses here and there and pools of blood. I remember seeing a butterfly flutter up and down that street. Summer does not abdicate.

Labourism was to be the bete noire of the Party, hated as much as the capitalist system itself. Its growth was to lead to the hardening of Party attitudes almost to the point where even...

Jesus didn’t fight against what was wrong. But he fought for what was right.

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.

For twenty-five years I’ve been speaking and writing in defense of your right to happiness in this world, condemning your inability to take what is your due, to secure what you won in bloody battles...

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a...

Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.

They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry maids or cooks.Nobody does, really. Why should they? Only in having clean clothes,...

The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.

Revolutions arise from obstinacy. People are dissatisfied with what they are told and they develop new ideas.

Don’t die without fulfilling your purpose.

Everyone that enters through Him is secured and the person shall find pastures for himself. Jesus really cares!

What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the only felt religion-that is left to us. Money is...

It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in “Revolution,” the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a...

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn’t wait for the real Peasant Leader to...

You want a revolution, start murdering innocents.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

Peace, he’d said. And revolution. How could there be both?

To call the population of strangers in the midst of which we live “society” is such a usurpation that even the sociologists wonder if they should abandon a concept that was, for a century, their...

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

The field of financial innovation, without rules that tie it to human productive output will be the cause of the next revolution.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!