Zach Galifianakis Quotes

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced from pressures from below.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

Even if you can't be an activist every day, when you can be, do it.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

I'm just generally lazy.

Homework is not an option. My bed is sending out serious nap rays. I can't help myself. The fluffy pillows and warm comforter are more powerful than I am. I have no choice but to snuggle under the covers.

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

You ever find yourself being lazy for no reason at all? Like, you pick up your mail, you go in your house, you realize you have a letter for a neighbor. You ever just look at the letter and go "Hm. Looks like they're never getting this. It'll take too much energy to go back outside. I'm gonna get that to them later on. Right now I gotta watch some 'Love Connection.' They got some new host on there."

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.

It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.

It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.

Where's the activism? Nobody knows. And anyone who thinks they know, like Todd Gitlin, has their head up their ass. Nobody knows. The day before every revolution that's ever happened, that revolution was impossible. The day before Rosa Parks, that was impossible. The day after, it was inevitable.

There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.