Starhawk Quotes

We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.

I'm not afraid to shake up the system, and government needs more shaking up than any other system I know.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Every single change is fought by those who would be affected by it.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.

If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.

Once there was a need for people like me to fight, to put things in order. Now we have order and prosperity.

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

At least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

What does it mean when something changes how it's always been?

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

A change imposed is a change opposed.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.