Jerry Rubin Quotes

#1. The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Jerry Rubin

#2. As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

Kathryn Schulz

#3. Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Jerry Rubin

#4. The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret.

Vincent De Paul

#5. By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

#6. You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

Jerry Rubin

#7. Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Jerry Rubin

#8. I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks ... with the leg missing, or with their head off. I have seen the little rib cages ...

Deborah Priya Henry

#9. I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

Jerry Rubin

#10. We create revolution by living it.

Jerry Rubin

#11. Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

Jerry Rubin

#12. The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

#13. I am obsessed. I believe this is what they call "getting taste of one's own medicine," and it's a bitter flavor.

Wendy Higgins

#14. The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

#15. Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

Jerry Rubin

#16. All money represents theft ... To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

Jerry Rubin

#17. But after a moment Laurent turned his eyes elsewhere, and then closed them, and they both made their way to sleep.

C.S. Pacat

#18. About the new saga of Camp Half-Blood, Percy continues to narrate the book? Rachel (the new Delphic oracle) will remain on the books (I am Brazilian and I love your books ... I can not wait for the books debut in Portuguese).

Rick Riordan

#19. In your living room, you're scared shitless. And that's just where the power structure wants you. In the middle of a riot, I've never found anybody who's chickenshit. The way to eliminate fear is to do what you're most afraid of.

Jerry Rubin

#20. I hope people can stop believing everything politicians say about Mexico and the United States, and the problems that we share.

Demian Bichir

#21. The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

#22. Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#23. Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never
satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I do not see that any progress has been made.

Henri Poincare

#24. In monarchies, each man's desire to do what was right in his own eyes could be restrained by beer, or force, by patronage, or by honor, and by professional standing armies. By contrast, republics had to hold themselves together from the bottom up, ultimately.

Gordon S. Wood

#25. I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

Jerry Rubin

#26. The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

Jerry Rubin

#27. We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

Jerry Rubin

#28. High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

Jerry Rubin

#29. American youth is looking for a reason to die.

Jerry Rubin

#30. Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

Jerry Rubin

#31. By showing that exercise sparks the master molecule of the learning process, Cotman nailed down a direct biological connection between movement and cognitive function.

John J. Ratey

#32. Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.

Jerry Rubin

#33. Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.

Jerry Rubin

#34. I'm famous. That's my job.

Jerry Rubin

#35. Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it ... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.

Jerry Rubin

#36. A lot of these industries are having difficulty finding reliable workers with the skills they require.

Jerry Rubin

#37. I had long wanted to write a love story, and I had long - wisely, I felt - shirked the challenge because I felt it the hardest story of all to write.

Richard Flanagan