Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
“We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. — William Doyle Copy Share Image
If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out.… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough,… — Jean Jaures Copy Share Image
In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the… — David Stove Copy Share Image
“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary,… — albert camus Copy Share Image
I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Perhaps no two events ever united so intimately and forceably to combat and expel prejudice, as the Revolution of America, and the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Communication media enabled collective action on new scales, at new rates, among new groups of people, multiplied the power available to civilizations… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Today this key component of revolution—the gap between what people want, and indeed expect, and what they get—is being played out in… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,… — Questlove Copy Share Image