Bill Ayers Quotes

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Let the revolution begin.

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

Revolutions do not go backward.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Revolution begins with one step

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

We are revolutionaries.

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

You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

When you look at the times in history when change was brought about, there were two factors: crisis and leadership.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

Revolutions are like onions. You peel away layer after layer.

Heroism means going out of bounds. In this world things must go out of bounds from time to time... No one can desire that the world continue to muddle along in every respect in the groove into which imperfect laws and even more imperfect behavior have pushed it. Without heroic intervention no Council of Nicaea, no dethronement of the Merovingians, no conquest of England, no Reformation, no revolt of the Netherlands, no free America. The thing that counts is who intervenes, how and in the name of what.

Revolutions are not easy.

People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!