Alexei Navalny Quotes

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

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

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

They weren't crazy. They were tired of being locked up. Even I could see that.

Authority is never without hate.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

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.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.

Servility always curdles into rage in the end.

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.

So many people treat you like you're a kid so you might as well act like one and throw your television out of the hotel window.

Do you trust the government? No? In that case, let’s overthrow it tomorrow.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Power is being able to affect the hegemony of existing systems.

Violence, indeed, is the child of suppression.

We have been told that…Britain is the mother and we are the children, that a filial duty and submission is due from us to her and that we ought to doubt our own judgment and presume that she is right, even when she seems to us to shake the foundations of government. But admitting we are children, have not children a right to complain when their parents are attempting to break their limbs, to administer poison, or to sell them to enemies for slaves?

Tyrannicide: Tyranny is a crime.

When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

For the first time in my life, I have to grab the monks by the throat. Me! The most religious man in the Kingdom! Because I've had enough- more than enough! My subjects and the elite among my subjects must obey!

What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?