Arthur Miller Quotes

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

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

Every class struggle is a political struggle

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly

The absolutists of contract are the real parents of revolution.

'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

The powerful don't make revolutions

You can bring down governments, you can do a lot of things that are in your own interests even though liberals will get very antsy when you start talking about it.

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.

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

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.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong.

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.

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

The seed of revolution is repression.

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.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

All past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles.

Politics, like religion, hold up torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Political evils must be sorely felt before they can be removed.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.