Martin Firrell Quotes

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

There's always stuff to rebel against.

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

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

I really rebel against authority.

I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

I cannot stand authority.

If I was a Greek citizen I'd be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

Who would be cleared by their committees? Not Washington, who was a rebel. Not Jefferson. who wrote that ... "rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Not Garrison, who publicly burned the Constitution; or Wendell Phillips ... a philosophical anarchist; nor [William] Seward of the Higher Law.... Not Lincoln ... or Wilson ... or Justice Holmes.

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stand up and protest.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more, and far more hideous, crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

There are .. two choices: obedience to institutional authority or radical dissent from it.

What happens when we questions power structures? What are the consequences?

I talk a lot about justice. I'm about it. I'm also about civil disobedience.