Bill Viola Quotes

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

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.

Even revolutions can only develop and mature the germs which already exist and have made their way into the consciousness of men; they cannot themselves create these germs or create new worlds out of nothing.

We cannot change public life until we have changed private life.

The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day

Change happens at the level of the individual

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

The revolution begins at home.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.