Jerry Rubin Quotes

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

The word conservative has become so loaded by people who are radical and don’t want to admit that they are radical.

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.

I've been politically radical my whole life, so when the left attacks, that hurts more.

If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'

Barack Obama is a radical, and we should not be afraid to say that.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck.

Ready for the revolution!

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

Those who are inclined to compromise can never make a revolution.

There are but two parties. There never have been but two parties ... founded in the radical question, whether people or property shall govern?

If a narrow-minded FBI agent slipped into Aaron McGruder’s Los Angeles penthouse apartment, his eyes would get wide. Just inside the front door is a photograph of Fidel Castro riding into Havana Jan. 1, 1959.

The ruling ideas of each age have always been the ideas of the ruling class.

The worst enemy of the new radicals are the old liberals.

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

A revolutionary is not the revolution.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

A party as such, in the course of the development of a revolution, becomes identical with the revolution.

Who, if not the revolutionary intelligentsia, could promote the political development of the working class?

Ultimately the views of the ruling class become embodied in the law.