Ram Dass Quotes

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

All the motive power in all of these [activist and revolutionary] movements is the instinct of religious feeling.

Grasp Revolution

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Revolutions are not improvised. They are not made at will by individuals, and not even by the most powerful associations. They come about through force of circumstances, and are independent of any deliberate will or conspiracy.

Fire in the lake: The image of revolution.

Forming the new society within the shell of the old.

A revolutionary should neither look nor act like one to get ahead in Canada.

I am imprisoned with a perception that will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.

Revolution is like a love story, When you are in love, your become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

We are on the threshold of a significant breakthrough, and the greatest weapon is the mass demonstration.

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being .... We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science and economy.

History teaches that apparent power of organization and armed resistance are of no avail to a cause psychologically undermined. "Revolutions," as a matter of fact, are primarily psychological phenomena.

Revolutions, when they erupt, appear to the elites and the establishment to be sudden and unexpected. This is because the real work of revolutionary ferment and consciousness is unseen by the mainstream society, noticed only after it has largely been completed.

A shocking event plus utopian imagination plus movement muscle, that's how we get a real leap.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.