Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

The spirit of the age is the very thing a great man changes.

I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture that we want.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

People are pushing against the fabric of society all the time.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

I have found here in America a philosophic revolution, philosophically effected.

Society was passing through a most critical stage. The French Revolution had diseased the imagination and unsettled the understanding of men everywhere. The old foundations of social order, loyalty, tradition, habit, reverence for antiquity, were everywhere shaken, if not subverted. The authority of the past was gone.

The period of radical reform is finished.

… the process of social change was not merely a matter of new inventions pressing on old institutions: it was a matter of new classes displacing old.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

When cultural movements happen, it's so beyond your control.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.

Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.