You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rig…

- Mario Savio

Having a place in this society is far less important than creating a society in which one would want to have a place.

- Mario Savio

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even tacitly take…

- Mario Savio

The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well…

- Mario Savio

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

- Mario Savio

The 'futures' and 'careers' for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consu…

- Mario Savio

The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America.

- Mario Savio

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be proces…

- Mario Savio

I am not a political person. My involvement in the Free Speech Movement is religious and moral... I don't know what made me get up and give that firs…

- Mario Savio