Ken Livingstone Quotes

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

Patriots have been incapable of removing one brick from this structure by “working within the system.” … There are two paths open to those who love the great America of their forefathers.

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

Many of my supporters, they want to change the system, and they are not in favor of the establishment.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all part of the global socialist movement.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

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

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution

The word Revolution, which we Socialists are so often forced to use, has a terrible sound in most people's ears, even when we have explained to them that it does not necessarily mean a change accompanied by riot and all kinds of violence

Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

The socialist or anarchist who seeks to overturn present conditions is to be regarded as attacking the foundation upon which civilization itself rests.

Without destruction of the State, there is no revolution.

Revolutions are not made for export

We now have a literary movement. it is not very important; it will be followed by a political movement, that will not be very important; then must come a military movement, that will be important indeed

If the result of so many sacrifices was that the capitalists remain in control, what was the point of the revolution?

I favor anti-politics politics.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.

It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

I believe in permanent revolution.