Cenk Uygur Quotes

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.

I'm of the establishment but anti-establishment.

This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

I was always fighting the establishment, trying to run through brick walls.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

I'm challenging the powers that be.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

The powerful don't make revolutions

Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

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

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

The student will try to defy the master. Always.

We're not going to take this sitting down. We are fighting back.

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

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