The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized/Quotes
You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me.
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?—Bloody Revolutions lyrics, by Crass.
"Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go."—Colonel Saul Tigh of the New Caprican Resistance to Galen Tyrol, Battlestar Galactica.
Martin Luther: You think this is my work?! This is never my work!
Mob: (falls silent)
Spalatin in Mob: No...it's the people's work!
Martin: The people's work?—Luther
Blake: I meant what I said on Goth, Avon. We are not going to use Star One to rule the federation. We are going to destroy it.
Avon: I want to be free of him.
Avon: I never doubted that. I never doubted your fanaticism. As far as I am concerned, you can destroy whatever you like. You can stir up a thousand revolutions. You can wade in blood up to your armpits. Oh, and you can lead the rabble to victory, whatever that might mean. Just so long as there is an end to it. When Star One is gone, it is finished, Blake. And I want it finished. I want it over and done with. I want to be free.
Cally: But you are free now, Avon.
"It's easy to know what you are against, but quite another to know what you are for."—Damien O'Donovan, The Wind That Shakes the Barley
"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"