Jacque Fresco Quotes

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Amendment remedies.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

The seed of revolution is repression.

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

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

It is authority that provokes revolution....

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for it, and if enough fight for it, it makes it very difficult for the people with the big sticks.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

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

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.