Charles John Darling Quotes

We … need education in the obvious – to learn to transcend our own convictions and to leave room for much that we hold dear to be done away with short of revolution by the orderly change of law.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

Human society cannot, be changed in a year.

Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

Progressive change in this country has never come from above.

Societies either roll on blindly to disaster or they find the inner strength to stop themselves long enough to find ways for reform from within.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. I want to see the Liberal party throw its heart and soul fearlessly into reform so as to prevent a reaction from the present state of things and the violent revolution that would inevitably follow it.

Evolution not revolution

You can't find your way to social reform through the forces that made social reform necessary.

We are making our revolution slowly and by constitutional methods.

Great political and social changes begin to be possible as soon as men are not afraid to risk their lives.

… evolution over revolution.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, it carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

Incremental change will not solve this nation’s problems.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day — in some unknown serra — some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.

Change America—Change the World

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

All I want to do is change the world.