Mario Savio: Quotes about time

Mario Savio was American activist. Explore interesting quotes on time.

Mario Savio: 16 quotes2 likes

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it — that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”

Speech, Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley (1964-12-02).

“You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.”

Quoted in interview with Jack Fincher, "The University Has Become a Factory," Life magazine (1965-02-26).

“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.”

"An End to History," http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/savioendofhistory.html Humanity (December 1964).