Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

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

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

An oppressed people will always rise.

The toppling of idols - even respectable, admired, best-practice, fastest-growing idols - is always the road to liberation.

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’ s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’ s the most revolutionary insight of all.

The struggle now is the struggle for our emancipation; the struggle now is the struggle for our independence. Joy Bangla!. Since we have given blood, we will give more blood. God-willing, the people of this country will be liberated...Turn every house into a fort. Face (the enemy) with whatever you have…. This time the struggle is for our freedom!

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

It’s a new world, brother. And we, the downtrodden, are taking it back. (Madoc)

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

The powerful don't make revolutions

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

You'll be free or die!

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.

Give me time and I'll give you a revolution.