“Not all speed is movement.”
“The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren t me. Not anymore.”
“हाथों में अंगारों को लिए सोच रहा था, कोई मुझे अंगारों की तासीर बताए”
“As if the sky itself were listening, the dome overhead darkened, and three enormous screens lit up against the black backdrop. People of Luna, said a feminine voice, please give your full attention now to this mandatory broadcast, live from Artemisia Palace. The royal coronation ceremony is about to begin. A wicked grin pulled at Winter s lips. She stepped away from Jacin, faced the people, and raised her arms to her sides. People of Luna, she said, echoing the broadcast and pulling the crowd s attention away from the dome, please give your full attention now to the true heir to the Lunar throne, Princess Selene, live from your very own sector. Her eyes flashed as she swooped and arm toward Cinder. Our revolution is about to begin.”
“But if you knew about this…conspiracy, why did you cooperate with it? Why did you allow Hae-Joo Im to get so close to you? Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases? Tell me. We see a game beyond the endgame… But to what end? Some future…revolution? It can never succeed. As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.”
“There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.”
“I am not going to leave this land, I will die as a martyr at the end … I shall remain, defiant. Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time.”
“At the root of everything lay the passionate desire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.”
“It doesn t matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn t at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution.”
“I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. Nevertheless, I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw.”
“One day it s the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it s everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one s been taking out the trash.”
“O.K., so I m not so smart. I m working class. But it s the working class that keeps the world running, and it s the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can t understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I d like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody s really being exploited, we ve got to put a stop to it. That s what I believe, and that s why I ask questions.”
“Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, mental disorders, depression, anxiety. Not to mention the greatest source of social paralysis, stopping us from moving into new methodologies for personal health, global sustainability and progress on this planet, is not some corrupt government or legislation. Not some rogue corporation or banking cartel. Not some flaw of human nature and not some secret cabal that controls the world. It is the socioeconomic system itself at its very foundation.”
“[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.”
“Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here I lost my land is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate-- We lost *our* land.”
“If no one seems to understand Start your own revolution and cut out the middleman - Waiting for the Great Leap Forward”
“The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.”