Charles A. Reich Quotes

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.

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

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

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

'Aquarian Conspiracy' is the term I have coined for the network of people working for social transformation based on personal inner change. Such a notion is not at all alien to the American milieu.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

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

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.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

We are in the midst of revolution, the most complete, unexpected, and remarkable of any in the history of the world.

Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

A party is only revolutionary on condition of revolutionizing the heads of women and men.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

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.