John Green Quotes

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

All I want to do is change the world.

Revolution is always delightful in the preliminary stages. So long as it's a question of getting rid of the people at the top.

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

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

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement--but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims

Sisters, I ain't clear what you be after. If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Especially in the sphere of social activism, I think we tend to unwittingly conceptualize progress or revolution as black and white and having a clear beginning and end.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

We have the right of revolution. Revolution does not always have to be weapons and warfare; it's also about revolutionary ideas.

What matters is not to know the world but to change it.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.