Mark Levin Quotes

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

I am imprisoned with a perception that will settle for nothing less than making a revolution in the consciousness of our time.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!

I don’t want to be happy. I just want to change the world.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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

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

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.