Kalle Lasn Quotes

Street art, of course, is political, because it's illegal, so the very act of doing it is an act of defiance.

My work isn't overtly political, although it is sometimes painted in places where I don't have permission to paint, so that could be construed as a political statement.

While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one learns through struggle.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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

How many of you are willing to go to jail for freedom?

Who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson. who wrote that ... "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips ... a philosophical anarchist; nor [William] Seward of the Higher Law.... Not Lincoln ... or Wilson ... or Justice Holmes.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Civil disobedience is the core of American defiance against kings and emperors.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

If this be treason, make the most of it!

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

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The seed of revolution is repression.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

The best hope to smash Fascism in the world.

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.