Scott Westerfeld Quotes

I think it's important to rebel a little bit.

If you have security, you can rebel; if you don't, you hold on to any scraps of it that you have.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

The great appear great to us only because we are on our knees;, LET US RISE!

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

Dare! — this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

I'm proud to be part of the resistance.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.

I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

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

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

The minute I was told what to do at any age, I did the opposite. Hopefully I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

You'll be free or die!

I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

I am still radical!

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

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