Jose Mujica Quotes

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

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

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we are at no loss to perceive that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind

Revolutions do not go backward.

Revolutions never go backward.

Some great minds become great by turning the rubble of an exploded paradigm into something consistent and meaningful. Others become great by laying the gunpowder, grain by grain. Every important revolution needs both kinds of minds to complete itself.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

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.

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

I love challenging the status quo.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!