“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?”

“Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others.”

“In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate - look to his character.”

“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”

“My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.”

“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking about revolution as a thing — “the” revolution, the great cataclysmic break—and instead ask “what is revolutionary action?” We could thensuggest: revolutionary action is any collective action which rejects, and therefore confronts, some form of power or domination and in doing so, reconstitutes social relations—even within the collectivity—in that light. Revolutionary action does not necessarily have to aim to topple governments. Attempts to create autonomous communities in the face of power (using Castoriadis’ definitionhere: ones that constitute themselves, collectively make their own rules or principles of operation, and continually reexamine them), would, forinstance, be almost by definition revolutionary acts. And history shows us that the continual accumulationof such acts can change (almost) everything.”