Tom Robbins Quotes

When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.

Disobey the rules; ask for more; leave your wretchedness behind; organize with your brothers and sisters; never accept the hand of fate.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren't doing.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

I hope I don't have to buck the system. But if it requires bucking, I will do it.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.