Mark Mothersbaugh Quotes

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.

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

You can't change the system through violence.

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

We are revolutionists from head to foot; revolutionists we were; revolutionists we are; revolutionists we shall remain until the very end.

You have to get an individual who's willing to actually struggle with the system to change it. As long as you have people who - to make substantive changes, to make infrastructure changes.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

We are revolutionaries.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

I think you have to ask yourself does voting work on the level that you are trying to effectuate change; that is the conversation you must have.

Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to 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.