James Young Quotes

You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.

Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

As long as there is a great disparity of power which makes negotiations seem to be unnecessary to one side, that causes them to believe that they can accomplish their purposes without it.

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

You only believe that it is a relationship. It is a conflict, it is enmity, it is jealousy, it is aggression, it is domination, it is possession, and many things - but not relationship. How can you relate with two egos there? When there are two egos, then there are four persons.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Revolutions are never peaceful.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

The revolution begins at home.

You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Out of anger comes controversy, out of controversy comes conversation, out of conversation comes action.

The hammer and the anvil are the two hemispheres of every true reformer's character.

I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed?

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Nudity was an inconvenient but unavoidable part of pack life. We'�d all thought nothing of it before Leah came along. Then it got awkward. - Jacob Black

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrified in the turbulence of change.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.