Margaret Thatcher Quotes

O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

Even rats can only be kicked around for so long before they've had enough.

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.

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.”

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

The seed of revolution is repression.

If officials are too forceful, people will revolt.

The right of revolution is the inherent right of a people to cast out their rulers, change their policy, or effect radical reforms in their system of government or institutions, by force or a general uprising, when the legal and constitutional methods of making such changes have proved inadequate, or are so obstructed as to be unavailable.

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

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

Violence is the only language understood by Mr. Lloyd George and his ministers.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

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.

We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.