Chance Quote by Kathy Acker

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

— Ingrid Newkirk

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of…

— John Cheever

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population…

— Zakaria Tamer

All men have poetry in their hearts, and it is necessary for them, as much as possible, to express their feelings. For this they…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence, and, by…

— Gao Xingjian

Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you…

— June Jordan

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who…

— Neil Ormerod

“the human mind is alike in every race and sect of people: when the danger isn’t close enough, or when enough generations have passed…

— Michael Bunker

If every man and woman were to take the meaning of their life and pursue it passionately, they would alter the social landscape overnight.…

— Richard Bode

“The message of decolonization issuing from many writers in the field is that the process of decolonizing can be extremely ‘messy’, often leading to…

— Zed Books

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the…

— Joyce Johnson