Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it’s peaceful, of course.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It’s very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

It’s a funny old world.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

Say there’s a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter – for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that’s saying is that he’s living a fantasy life of rebellion.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we’re going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product – the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

It’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.