Milan Kundera Quotes

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

I try to surround myself with the people who genuinely believe in changing things, that are angry about it and want to make changes and want to make a change and are willing.

Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

I'll rail against what I think is wrong.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

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

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

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.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

You may not realize this, but people have the power to change the world.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.