Ben Shahn Quotes

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Only force would produce social change.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. And then you win.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

They ask me if I'm going to quit. I thought we were just getting started. We have a revolution to fight, a country to change.

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Resistance is the first step to change.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.

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

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

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

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

We are here to make another world.

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?