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George Hanson2 quotes
They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em. — George Hanson · 1969Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em. — George Hanson · 1969Bodhi1 quote
This was never about money for us, it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something. To those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins, we show them that the human sprit is still alive. — Bodhi · 1991Captain (Cool Hand Luke)1 quote
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some man you just can’t reach. — Captain (Cool Hand Luke) · 1967David Wooderson1 quote
Man, it’s the same bullshit they tried to pull in my day. You know, if it ain’t that piece of paper, there’s some other choice they’re gonna try and make for you. You gotta do what Randall "Pink" Floyd wants to do, man. Let me tell you this: the older you do get, the more rules they’re gonna try to get you to follow. You just gotta keep livin’, man, L-I-V-I-N. — David Wooderson · 1993Dewey Finn1 quote
Give up, just quit, because in this life, you can't win. Yeah, you can try, but in the end you're just gonna lose, big time, because the world is run by the Man. The Man, oh, you don't know the Man? Well, he's everywhere. In the White House, down the hall, Miss Mullins, she's the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, and he's burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank, ok? And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock 'n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don't waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome 'cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just give up! — Dewey Finn · 2003Henry Fairlie1 quote
By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised. — Henry Fairlie · 1955Mario Savio1 quote
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! — Mario Savio · 1964Ms. Perkins1 quote
Fuck management. — Ms. Perkins · 2014Pink Floyd1 quote
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave them kids alone.
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone! — Pink Floyd · 1979Rhineheart1 quote
You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken. — Rhineheart · 1999The Crickets1 quote
I fought the law, and the law won. — The Crickets · 1961The Who1 quote
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss. — The Who · 1971Thomas Pynchon1 quote
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon · 1973