Jim Morrison Quotes

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

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

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

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

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

There are those who believe that power is up above, and they don't notice that it's actually in the hearts of the great masses.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

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

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

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.

It’s better to negotiate with a soft voice and a loaded gun, than to negotiate with just a soft voice.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

Speaking truth to power is never going to be easy.

It is needless to trouble your Lordship with daily Publications of determined resolutions not to obey the Acts of Parliament … The Country People are exercising in Arms… and getting Magazines of Arms and Ammunition … People are resorting to this town [Boston] for Protection…. Sedition flows copiously from the Pulpits. The Commissioners of Customs have thought it no longer safe or prudent to remain at Salem.

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.

I've found that any time you go against the people's voice you're going up against a tsunami that will have unbelievable power and implications.

Politicians and lawmakers are willing to watch us take us a knee, watch us march, watch us picket and protest - and wait us out. They are willing and prepared to outlast us - and, in most cases, to do absolutely nothing about the problems we highlight and amplify.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

I'ma call my guns jumpers, cause my bullets just leapin to 'em.

There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.