revolution

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The ecstatic vision and social program sought to rebuild a society upward from its grass roots but on principles of religious and economic egalitarianism, with free healing brought directly to the peasant homes and free sharing of whatever they had in return. The deliberate conjunction of magic and meal, miracle and table, free compassion and open commensality, was a challenge launched not just at Judaism__ strictest purity regulations, or even at the Mediterranean__ patriarchal combination of honor and shame, patronage and clientage, but at civilization__ eternal inclination to draw lines, invoke boundaries, establish hierarchies, and maintain discriminations.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?_If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!