revolution

Riots are the voices of the unheard.

Big Brother is watching you.

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.

Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.

One revolution is like one cocktail it just gets you organized for the next.

In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Revolutions are not made they come.

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part and parcel of the law of animal life. The bear robs the hive and the wolf the fold, and when "nature red in tooth and claw" is stretched into its human dimension, there is nothing irrational in Marx's theory that, granted the power, one social class should devour another. But what is irrational is, to assume that by robbing the hive the bear will assume the industry of the bee, or by robbing the fold the wolf will become as pacific as the sheep. It is astonishing that a man of Marx's high intelligence could have believed in ritualistic cannibalism on the social plane; that by wresting the forces of production from the bourgeoisie and centralizing them in the hands of the proletariat, the proletariat would automatically aacquire the skills of the ruling class. And it is equally astonishing that a man of Lenin's mental calibre could have attempted to put this magic into practice.

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

But I don't shut up and I don't die.I liveand fight, maddeningthose who rule my country.For if I liveI fight,and if I fightI contribute to the dawn.