Eric Idle Quotes

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

All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

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

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

Don't accept the old order. Get rid of it.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

See, I'm a subverter at heart.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.

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

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

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

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

You can't change the world without a certain amount of healthy willingness to break the rules.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

Ready for the revolution!

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution is a torrent which sweeps aside those who resist it.