Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

I don't like the word 'feminist.' I don't like the word 'ambitious.' I do like the word 'anti-establishment.'

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's period. Excuse me, but that's where it was at.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

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

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

We Abolition Women are turning the world upside down.

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.