Veronica Roth Quotes

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Revolution begins with one step

The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

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

Ready for the revolution!

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

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Only force would produce social change.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

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.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them.

With rebellion, awareness is born

It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.