"Where the evil of the existing order is recognized, revolution is born. The revolutionary would like to overthrow the old order, replacing it with 'justice'. But in that he does so, he too claims for himself that which no human being can claim. He treats the 'right' as a thing which he can control: 'he forgets that he is not the One, the Subject of that freedom for which he thirsts; . . . not the Christ who stands over against the Grand Inquisitor but, on the contrary, always only the Grand Inquisitor who stands over against the Christ.' The revolutionary aims at 'the Revolution, which is the impossible possibility.' But instead, he carries out 'the other revolution . . . the possible possibility of dissatisfaction, hatred, insubordination, rebellion, and destruction.' What is the Christian to do in the face of this 'possible possibility'? She is to witness to the Revolution, by her 'not doing'; by not becoming angry, by not attacking and not destroying. She is to deprive the existing order of pathos, thereby starving it out of existence. That is the 'the great negative possibility'."

-----Bruce McCormack, quoting and explaining Karl Barth, from his book, "Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology"