Dean Inge Quotes

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.

The period of radical reform is finished.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

The foundations of society have cracked as a result of the revolutionary reforms....The definitions and boundary lines of good and evil have disappeared.

This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.

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

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

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

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Changes do occur often with such suddenness in ways not foreseen except by isolated thinkers far removed from the consensus of their day.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

… evolution over revolution.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. Drive them full speed ahead and keep them on the rails... .

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

You get few chances to make really transformational institutional change.

Like it or not, the United States is a revolutionary power. Whether the government is trying to overthrow foreign dictators is almost irrelevant. American society is about the most revolutionary force on the planet. The Internet is more subversive than the CIA in its prime. The dynamism of American Society is constantly creating new businesses, new technologies, new ideas and new social models. These innovations travel, and they make trouble when they do.

A revolution is generally only evolution--an explosive sequence of events crowded into a short space of time, but leaving more of the ancient regime untouched than usually is at first apparent.

… 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.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

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