“We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.” PeopleNeedsRunningPoliticalFightingTeachStreetsRevolutionArmsStructureInternationalRevolutionaryPigsOrganizeUp And DownResistingPolitical PowerReactionaries Author:Fred Hampton
“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.” ThinkingGivingWinningIndividualNationsCommunityChallengesAcceptingSuccessfulGreaterRevolutionDependsLessonsEssenceStructureI've Learned Author:Abbie Hoffman
“The techno-industrial system is exceptionally tough due to its so-called "democratic" structure and its resulting flexibility. Because dictatorial systems tend to be rigid, social tensions and resistance can be built up in them to the point where they damage and weaken the system and may lead to revolution. But in a "democratic" system, when social tension and resistance build up dangerously the system backs off enough, it compromises enough, to bring the tensions down to a safe level.” MayEnoughSocialLevelsRevolutionSafeToughBuiltStructureDemocraticDuesResistanceCompromiseDamageTensionFlexibilityTechno Author:Theodore Kaczynski
“Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.” PeopleWayWantFirstsSpiritualFormEconomyRevolutionTransformationStructure Author:Joseph Goebbels
“Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.” WorldHumansTogetherSuccessfulRevolutionOrganizationTransformationStructureDefinedWorking TogetherTransitionRepetitionSuccessful Organizations Author:Bill Drayton
“The enormous social change involved in a sexual revolution is basically a matter of altered consciousness, the exposure and elimination of social and psychological realities underlying political and cultural structures. We are speaking, then, of a cultural revolution, which, while it must necessarily involve the political and economic reorganization traditionally implied by the term revolution, must go far beyond this as well.” WellsMatterRealityPoliticalPoliticsSocialWomenTermConsciousnessEconomicRevolutionInvolvedStructureEnormousPsychologicalSexismSocial ChangeExposureAlteredEliminationImpliedSexual RevolutionReorganization Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.” ThinkingPoliticalVoiceRevolutionStructureSakeCriticalAccountabilityCubanAtrophy Author:Tariq Ali
“Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.” LawRevolutionStructureSilentBreadObedienceLabour Book:India of My Dreams Source: India of My Dreams
“I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things upside-down. We have moved away from the nuclear family, in which the man always works and the woman stays home. How are we going to rearrange things now? We've done the first part of the revolution, we've turned everything on its head, but we haven't figured out what structures will actually work in this new world.” ThinkingMenWorldNeedsFirstsKindDoneHomeStepsHavensHe ManRevolutionOkayMovedStructureNuclearNew WorldUpside DownNuclear FamiliesThings Upside Down Author:Debora Spar
“What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.” WorldWantImportantDifferentWholeGirlRocksRevolutionBandStructureRadicalism Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The transformations of the French empire itself or of French power structures themselves as well as the emergence of a kind of language of equal rights starting with the American Revolution and the French Revolution provided an opportunity and in some ways connected with other kinds of ground level desires or hopes and ideologies for freedom that were coming out of the plantation regime itself.” WayWellsKindDesireOpportunityLanguageLevelsRightsRevolutionEqualTransformationStructureStartingConnectedIdeologyEmpiresComing OutRegimesEqual RightsAmerican RevolutionEmergenceFrench RevolutionPlantations Author:Laurent Dubois
“In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.” Has BeensBodyPastThreeEnergyProcessInformationObjectsRevolutionFlowStructureConstantDecadesPerceive Author:Deepak Chopra
“The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention and hierarchy were so entangled, that when the French killed the king during the Revolution, they lost much of their vertical attention too.” WholeLostChurchAttentionRevolutionKingsCatholicStructureConfusedEmpiresHierarchyCatholic ChurchAdaptedRoman EmpireVerticalRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Robert Bly
“Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all revolutions in the whole of history, because one man can become the womb for God to be reborn.” MenSoulWholeIndividualSocietyRevolutionStructureOne ManWombReborn Author:Rajneesh