Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Quotes

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

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

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

There is a revolution in Germany, and we must ask ourselves, "Is there a revolution in the university?" No. The fighting is still in the skirmishing stage.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

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

We are here to make another world.

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

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

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.