First off is Tony Blair’s speech to the house of Commons. Second off is this article on Salon.
With war underway, and a Bush victory a possibility, the antiwar movement appears to be in denial about its future influence. [Salon]
Another thing to consider-
Questioner: You say that we should revolt against society, and at same
time you say that we should not have ambition. Is not the
desire to improve society an ambition?
Krishnamurti: I have very carefully explained what I mean by revolt,
but I shall use two different words to make it much clearer. To revolt
within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about
certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life
within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is
just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like
the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within
the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking
away from society, and that is creative revolution.
Now, if you as an individual break away from society, is that action
motivated by ambition? If it is, then you have not broken away at all,
you are still within the prison, because the very basis of society is
ambition, acquisitiveness, greed. But if you understand all that and
bring about a revolution in your own heart and mind, then you are no
longer ambitious, you are no longer motivated by envy, greed,
acquisitiveness, and therefore you will be entirely outside of a society
which is based on those things. Then you are a creative individual and
in your action there will be the seed of a different culture.
So there is a vast difference between the action of creative
revolution, and the action of revolt or mutiny within society. As long
as you are concerned with mere reform, with decorating the bars and
walls of the prison, you are not creative. Reformation always needs
further reform, it only brings more misery, more destruction. Whereas,
the mind that understands this whole structure of acquisitiveness, of
greed, of ambition and breaks away from it--such a mind is in constant
revolution. It is an expansive, a creative mind; therefore, like a
stone thrown into a pool of still water, its action produces waves, and
those waves will form a different civilization altogether."
-- Krishnamurti, Think On These Things, pp.
155-156