Vinoba Bhave Quotes

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

The revolution doesn't always look perfect.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

It's always been young people at the forefront of any revolution.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

In times of revolution, it is dangerous to carry through fundamental changes suddenly, however reasonable and desirable they may be in themselves. This is to risk losing everything.

A good government can no more exist without propaganda than propaganda can exist without a good government.

The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of it's powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

If there is any power in this country greater than the power of the people, we will destroy it.

A revolutionary should neither look nor act like one to get ahead in Canada.

I want a prepared, organized, orderly and resistless revolution.

Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns.

Every revolution begins with someone whining.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

I am imprisoned with a perception that will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.