Peter Hitchens Quotes

The period of radical reform is finished.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

The generation which commences a revolution can rarely complete it

The world which we now live in must be transformed, yet there is a dearth of ideas about how it is to be done.

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

Every so often, we pass laws repealing human nature.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

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.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

The worst of revolutions is a restoration.

In 1986, human nature in America started to change. That year, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show,' based in Chicago, became nationally syndicated, and the country entered the beginning stages of a quiet cultural revolution.

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.

There is complete disdain for all that exists .... History, society, and the economics of present institutions are all minor issues in choosing a reform program ...

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

The National Revolution has begun.

Great institutions can only be reformed by stealth or by revolution.

Philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

Havana.- If 1959 was the Year of Liberation, 1960 was the Year of the Agrarian Reform. The nation lived days of intense transformations, not only political but, also, in every aspect of social and individual activity of its citizens.