Luke Roberts Quotes

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

There is a kind of theme that runs through the modern world that human relationships should be looked at in terms of power relationships, in terms of the manipulation of power. That is one of the really wicked ways of looking at the world. It strips people of their humanness.

People who bear the brunt of dominant economic and military power have always resented, even hated, the subordination they experience while admiring grudgingly the institutions that sustain the subordination.

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

By us, and not for us

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

Those who are most desperate for change are those who are the most powerless to effect it.

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

The government has muffled the voices that best represent the most significant segments of society.

It is necessary to be very intelligent in the work of oppression.

Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand up for them.

You don't fight injustice by asking to become part of the system that committed the injustice against you in the first place. That's like a freed slave striving to become a slave owner.

The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that's been discriminated against, knows what it's like.

I wanted to try and change the idea of what we call mainstream. So many times what we call mainstream is upper middle class white suburbia. And anything outside of that is considered niche.

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.