Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

An oppressed people will always rise.

I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute.

Our time has come in this country to go to prison. We'll go to prison, we'll die, but tomorrow our children must be free.

It is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Men rattle their chains--to manifest their freedom.

I would welcome the news that the slaves had risen.

For me, prison is a necessary step towards achieving the right to self-determination.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

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

We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.

Despair and frustration will not shake our belief that the resistance is the only way of liberation.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.