Joichi Ito Quotes

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

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

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.