Austin Grossman Quotes

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

I tell you that the new age has dawned, the age of holy anarchy.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

I just knew that I wanted world domination. I knew that with anything I do, I want to be the greatest. That entails being great everywhere. Not just in America - everywhere.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.

Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

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

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

There are several differences between a football game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also, there are usually more casualties in a football game. The object of the game is to move a ball past the other team's goal line. This counts as six points. No points are given for lacerations, contusions, or abrasions, but then no points are deducted, either. Kicking is very important in football. In fact, some of the more enthusiastic players even kick the ball, occasionally.

Let the revolution begin.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.