Barry Levinson Quotes

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

History is a relay of revolutions

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

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

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

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

Agitate, agitate, agitate.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

I have always believed in discontent – not grumbling, which is usually selfish and individual – but a disinclination to sit down idly, knowing things are wrong.

In every revolution on Earth, consciousness came first.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Resistance is the first step to change.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!