Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

Charles A. Reich

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• Scandinavia was awash with Maoism in the '70s. Sweden had Maoist groups with a combined membership and periphery of several thousand members, but it was Norway where Maoism became a genuine popular force and hegemonic in the culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Culture
  • Popular
  • Force

• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Losing

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Country
  • Change

• When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Culture
  • You
  • Concept

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Past
  • Marriage
  • Same

• Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Culture
  • Understanding

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Why
  • Society
  • Man

• Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Water

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Revolution
  • Sign

• Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • History
  • Past

• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Time
  • American
  • Revolution

• As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Unique

• I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• Donald Trump has his Twitter account, but so do I, and so do millions and millions of Americans. So the way that we can organize around that is different than what we had in the past, and we can use that tool for good, not just for evil.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Good
  • Different
  • Past

• One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.

  

  Daniel Drezner
  • Culture
  • Strange
  • September

• On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Past
  • Silence

• The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Intelligent

• Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people).

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Language
  • Complicated
  • Academic

• Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • World
  • Important
  • Rest

• There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Revolution