Hozier Quotes

Petitions are ridiculous.

Working Americans who believe in our country and who believe in our Constitution are saying, 'Enough is enough!'

To fight against the government with any means is a basic right and sport of every German.

The fact that people gather with placards is abnormal. Other countries would not allow that. Our democracy is in many cases excessive.

Politically, we have seen the impact of social media organizing people through the Arab Spring.

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

We need to also act out, and anything that [Donald] Trump does, anything he's trying to do that we don't agree with or anything this country is doing in general that we don't agree with, we need to protest, we need to make our voices heard. And that has to go beyond Twitter - for me as well.

You know, when we get to a point in this country where dissent is extremism, we've turned, I think, a very dark page in our history. And I don't want us to go there. I encourage Americans and I'm - right now, to go to these town hall meetings, to - to talk to your Congressmen, the people that you elected.

Political activists in Hong Kong and Taiwan use Facebook as their primary tool to mobilize support for their causes and activities.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Any government is concerned whenever you have public demonstrations in large measure.

We will have no political future if we are not arrested.

If there is liberty, if there is democracy, in this country, it will stand or fall with the right of the minority to express to the full force of language its opposition in public to the policies of the government. And it will stand or fall with the courage of the minority so to express itself.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

Anybody can belong to the opposition groups. But there are people who are going to organize and concentrate on regime change, and they do everything toward these goals. Show me any country in the world that does not consider these activities to be crimes. Could they be encouraged in the United States or any country in Europe?

Poetry can't give us the laws and institutions and representatives, the antidotes we need: only public activism by massive numbers of citizens can do that.

I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.

I welcome nonviolent protests as an exercise of our great democracy.

A lot of us were worried that the secular fabric of the country was under threat and it was time that citizens begin to speak out. Hence we called ourselves Citizen Speak India.

Protests are part of our democracy.

You know in democracy you can protest peacefully and I'm sure you know it will have at least some kind of impact. You need to raise your voice. If you can't do much, you know, but at least raise you voice. Raising your voice is something you need to do.