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The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Our Founding Fathers never meant for Washington, D.C. to be the fount of all wisdom. As a matter of fact they were very much afraid if that because they'd just had this experience with this far-away government that had centralized thought process and planning and what have you, and then it was actually the reason that we fought the revolution in the 16th century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown if you will.

In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

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