Cenk Uygur Quotes

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

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

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

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

Death to Pharaoh!

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.

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

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

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

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

The devil I know is the establishment, and I'm gonna beat that devil.

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

When anarchy is declared, the first thing we do, let's kill all the anarchists.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

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

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.