Regina Spektor Quotes

The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same.

The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.

The thing about changing the world... Once you do it, the world's all different.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

I intend to lay a foundation that will revolutionize the whole world.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.

Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint.

Waiting on the World to Change.

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

One of history's secrets is that the revolutionaries appeal in the eyes of posterity owes much to the traits they share with the world they overthrew.

I do think that our culture or our psyche as a country I guess, the world or whatever, we're due for a huge event. We're due for a little bit of a revolution or a spotlight or a movement. Something that feels large, something that feels like the 60s. Some sort of unification.

For me, the movement has to be bigger than just a record. For me, a movement represents like taking over the world.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.