It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad and yet potentially joyous state of America.

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities a reevaluation of our values a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.

Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

This revolution the information revoultion is a revolution of free energy as well but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now or 50 years from now?

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints such people have a corpse in their mouth.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake art that stands above classes art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman the unsuccessful one a criminal.

Music is more emotional than prose more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

For some reason the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.