Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Every revolution is the consequence of one revolution and the beginning of another.

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Trying to cause chaos - I think that's the way I create change.

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As the present now Will later be past The new order is Rapidly fadin'. And the first one now Will later be last For the times they are a-changin'.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

At a time of great social upheaval, all things are possible.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.