John Locke Quotes

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

Unless something drastic is done very soon, then bloodshed and violence are going to happen…almost inevitably… A people made desperate by despair and injustice and oppression will use desperate means.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

There will never be quietness in this country till half a dozen of you be hanged or banished.

Large crowds have gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit among the masses is resistance to Lincoln’s administration, and everywhere that determination is manifest.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

I've always hated oppression.

You can put Trump in the White House, but you need to prepare for a revolt because I'm going nuts.

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

My view is when you use violence on your people, that never ends well.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

The seed of revolution is repression.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Unrest has its reasons.