Gerard Way Quotes

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

I spent a lot of years trying to beat the system and, in the end, the system kicked my behind good.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

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.

I never wanted the government to feel my pain. I wanted it to feel my boot in its butt.

Martyrdom does not end something. It is only the beginning.

Only force would produce social change.

The tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants

The abolition of man-made laws cannot be achieved only through preaching. Those who have usurped the authority of God and are oppressing God's creatures are not going to give up their power merely through preaching.

I decided to protest in 2016 because I was feeling helpless and somebody needed to do something.

I just want to fight the world. Fight the system. Fight everybody.

Cynicism is the largest obstacle to social change. Cynicism is dangerous because people throw up their hands and say, "Well it's not possible. Why should I even try?"

It's what I'll be singing in the morning. It won't be God Save the Ruddy King or All Things bleeding Bright and Beautiful. It'll be Orange and Lemons for Big Joe, for all of us.

I am worried that Americans I have met on my journey across the country, seem very hopeless and are feeling powerless to make change and are feeling passive. I'm not blaming them. But one thing we need at a time like this is for people to feel empowered and angry.