Masanobu Fukuoka Quotes

There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

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.

Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

Non-co-operation is a nation's determination to improve.

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It's not a silent majority, it's really a noisy majority.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.