Shane Claiborne Quotes

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

The right of the revolution is the right of the future.

This is only a preliminary step toward a similar revolution everywhere.

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

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

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

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

All big changes of the world come from words.

If Egypt were going to change, it is going to change through the young people.

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

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

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

You know, I'm not a revolutionary.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

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