I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: power wisdom freedom writing law cowardice morality laws revolution honor order property Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't let them tame you! —Isadora Duncan More about this quote Tags: control timidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: politics power power winning control victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: heroism violence irony heroes Quakers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom to cut down world's oldest trees / Freedom to make Indians get down on their knees / And pray to your God and obey your FBI / And freedom to protest if you're not too scared to die. —Allen Ginsberg More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We're far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An environmental setting developed over millions of years must be considered to have some merit. Anything so complicated as a planet, inhabited by more than a million and a half species of plants and animals, all of them living together in a more or less balanced equilibrium in which they continually use and reuse the same molecules of the soil and air, cannot be improved by aimless and uninformed tinkering. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: life progress animals harmony plants air equilibrium Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: music the world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. —Monica Piper More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: truth belief lying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The law is above the law, you know. —Dorothy Salisbury Davis More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Gerry's friends, you see, had no confidence in the United States judicial system. They did not seem comfortable in the courtroom, and this increased their unreliability in the eyes of judge and jury. If you trust the authorities, they trust you back, it seems. —Louise Erdrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and . . . they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called "cantankerous," "crazy," "hysterical," "uppity," or "duped." Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, fifty is a movement. —Carol Tavris More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. —Vaclav Havel More about this quote Tags: politics power responsibility policy circumstances Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: extremism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email