Bob Dylan Quotes

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.

How miserable that man is that Governes a People where six parts of seven at least are Poor, Endebted Discontented and Armed.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

In the beginning, all men were alike and they lived in peace and they shared among them what they had. But now there are two kinds of men, the master and the slave. But there are more of us than there are of you, many more. And we are stronger than you, better than you. All that is good in mankind belongs to us.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

The poor man … will be swayed by his sense of injury against the men who try to hold what they have improperly won… the most awful passions will be let loose.

Usually the impetus of a revolution is a relatively small group with positive goals but also a larger collection of people with resentments.

How long can we keep kidding these people? How long before they turn their guns in the other direction?

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice, the people will rise up & express their anger & frustration if you refuse to hear their cries. A riot is the language of the unheard.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

No one is content with his own lot.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.