Alan Moore Quotes

To feel that literature has any politically redemptive power at all just seems increasingly naive.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Bob Dylan was more important for my political orientation than Karl Marx.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.

Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

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

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

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

Abduction was what it felt like on first listening to Public Enemy. Like the post-punks, Public Enemy implicitly accepted the idea that a politics which came reassuringly dressed in established forms would be self-defeating.

The big umbrella issue is, do I make a bigger difference on the outside of political process or on the inside?

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.