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

• 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

• To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.

  

  David Whyte
  • Past
  • Control
  • Present

• It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • Up

• We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

  

  Mac Barnett

• The Truth is not Arbitrary or a Matter of Opinion, but can be Investigated, and Those who Earnestly Search for the Truth will Find It. The Truth is Hidden to the Blind, but he who has the Mental Eye Sees the Truth.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Search

• One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

  

  Delroy Lindo
  • Feeling
  • Opinion

• In my class - in all fifth-grade classes - we were required to read 'classics,' books like 'Shiloh,' which is about a white boy and the dog he rescues. And 'Old Yeller,' which is about a white boy and the dog that rescues him. And 'Where the Red Fern Grows,' which is about a white boy and the two dogs he trains.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Boy
  • Dog
  • Red

• 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