Joe Cowley Quotes

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

I'm Sirantha Jax, and I have had enough.

Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so great that force cannot contain it. Then the edifice cracks: the mortar crumbles.

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

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

The great thing about rock n' roll is, if you want to fight - like, fight the system, fight the man, fight the government, fight the people in front of you - it's Don Quixote all over again. You're really chasing windmills.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

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.

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.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

Sharpen my bones into swords and make my flesh into Molotov cocktails

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

This will not stand!

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.