Kim Jong Il Quotes

A party is only revolutionary on condition of revolutionizing the heads of women and men.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.

There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

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

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

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

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.