Subcomandante Marcos Quotes

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

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

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for 'The Daily Show,' Colbert and the rising up that's going on around the world.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

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.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

The function of a progressive is to keep on protesting until things get so bad that a reactionary demands reform.

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.

Dissociate yourselves from the satanic administration, and you will bring it to its knees. You will not have to lift a finger, let alone a stick or stone.

Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counter-power, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.

Large crowds have gathered in the streets. The pervading spirit among the masses is resistance to Lincoln’s administration, and everywhere that determination is manifest.

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.