Davy Jones Quotes

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority!

Power never takes a back step—only in the face of more power.

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power.

Why demand explanations? ... Explanations will hazard an encroachment upon the prerogative.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Authority is never without hate.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

I cannot stand authority.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.

Never by my consent shall these rebels gain by this war increased political power, and come back here to wield that political power

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.