Thom Yorke Quotes

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The seed of revolution is repression.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

The removal of a tyrant is not merely justifiable; it is the highest duty of every true revolutionist.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance.

In all of history, there has always been a time and a place where patriots rise up against the decree of the elites and shout, 'No more... get your hands off my freedom!'

Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and attitudes. Over time, however, they have met with considerable success, even though there is a long way to go, and there is often regression.

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

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

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.