Tom Tancredo Quotes

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

Liberalism is but childishness, which is easily brought to reason; but revolution is a force, and one must know how to use it.

When citizens have no political way to deal with revolution, they become counter-revolutionary.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

I witnessed a lot of violence, and I found myself asking the question: Do you ever use violence to try to bring about political change?

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

I was born in revolution.

And I have a message for the liberals and the defenders of the status quo: we're just getting started.

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

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

People of my generation in Portugal fell into the magic potion of political ideas. What was very funny about this revolution was that it did not bring wealth to the Portuguese. But it brought language, ideas. You'd go to the fish market, and all the women who were selling fish would call each other fascist, communist.

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