Quotes About Resistance

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

When Tunisians overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in 29 days and Egyptians Hosni Mubarak in 18 days, it was an appropriate rebuke to dictators and Bin Laden.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

People are scared to take a stand. If you do take a stand you receive backlash.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.

Record companies tell me to play something more commercial, but I don't want to do anything else.

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

I don't like record company people very much, so I don't want to be one of them.

The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

I have a red line against the Americans.

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

Nobody should be forced to face evil with empty hands.

I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself.

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.