Patch Adams Quotes

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

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

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.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

We are here to make another world.

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

You should not neglect agitation; each of you should make it his task.

Only force would produce social change.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

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

In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.