William Dean Howells Quotes

We are revolutionaries.

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.

The most revolutionary ideas are not sellable, but only mind-changing.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Ready for the revolution!

Americans have always been amongst the most revolutionary people of the world.

In order to really believe in an idea being revolutionary, you have to truly understand how it's going to revolutionize life.

As much as people want to call me a bomb-thrower, look at my record.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

We need our radicals.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

As we approach each of the great social challenges of our time we must acknowledge that old thinking will not provide the new solutions we need. These solutions will be uncomfortable, hard to sell and risky to execute. But the cost of not doing so is even greater.

Radicals can be found in any environment.

I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Organizations don’t make revolutions. People do.

Those who are inclined to compromise can never make a revolution.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law.

A radical is one who speaks the truth.