Demetri Martin Quotes

He no play-a da game. He no make-a da rules.

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

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.

This will not stand!

And do not acquiesce to the unjust …

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

Remember: Resist do not comply.

Don't let the government win.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met full head-on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is just absolutely no compromise that can be made with it.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

I think that was when the headmaster realized he had lost; he realized then that he was finished. Because, what could he do? Was he going to tell us to stop praying? We kept our heads bowed; and we kept praying. Even as awkward as he was, the Rev. Mr. Merrill had made it clear to us that there was no end to praying for Owen Meany.

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

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

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

I say, break the law.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

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