Sibel Edmonds Quotes

I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.

My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.

It's only by being disruptive that you get people to have a conversation about an issue.

I want to continuously instigate, whatever it may be.

Subversion is what I do.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Reformation ends not in contemplation, but in action.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

I think I can change the game.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.