Rand Paul Quotes

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

Surely one can be a dissident without intending to run for a higher public office.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.

There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.