How to Proceed?
Exercise your mental marksmanship! Brandish your wit!
Incite your own actions! And remember that the correct handling of contradiction among the people
is neighbourliness.
Consider This!
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
An idea is salvation by imagination.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
—"Song of Myself", Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
—John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
—Roseanne Barr (1952- )
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
—Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
A clash of doctrines is not a disaster—it is an opportunity.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
—John Cage (1912-1992)
If you ask us what's going to happen in the near future, we have no fucking idea. Sorry for using the word 'idea.'
—Subcommander Marcos (?- )
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
—Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Dare to be naive.
—R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
—Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989)
August 27th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
this is most definitely the revolution i’ve been waiting for.
i am told (by wikipedia, so it must be true!) that emma goldman may never have actually said “if i can’t dance, i don’t want to be part of your revolution”… but regardless, i am thinking that dancing is a good place to start.
September 17th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
and i want to dance like everyone is looking!