Howard Rheingold Quotes

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Social change comes through people.

Only through perils and upheavals can Nations be brought to further developments. May the present upheavals lead to a better world.

The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

If the world is turning, even the church can’t stop it; if it isn’t turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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 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.

The times they are a-changing.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Revolutions never go backward.

No one makes a revolution by himself.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.