Evgeny Morozov Quotes

I think that people who believe in limited government would benefit greatly by studying the logic in government itself and the role of power as a corruptive mechanism in leading finally to unlimited government.

Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

Politics is social work with power.

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.

It's a funny thing, I think people meet us and they assume that we know a lot more about politics than we actually do. People will really get into it. I'm like, I don't really know a lot about tariff reform or export trade reform. That's really not something I know about.

I think Donald Trump believes in democracy and the right to change of power.

I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

I think it's terribly important that networks of anarchists establish themselves with a view toward educating people.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We have a scenario of revolution that first, you know, comes from 1917, that first you take the state power, and then you change things. And we don't realize it's collapsed.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

We do not live in a revolutionary time. People are not prepared to contest power.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

I think the best way that we can bring people together is through change in Washington, D.C.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.