Immortal Technique Quotes

The purpose of life is a life with a purpose. So I’d rather die for a cause, than live a life that is worthless.

A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.

Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them. But I keep 'em as a reminder they're not killing me, And I thank God for teaching me humility. Son, remember when you fight to be free To see things how they are and not how you like em to be. Cause even when the world is falling on top of me, Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy. Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you right, And it's another when you suffer to apply it in life. But I'm no rookie... And I'm never gonna make the same mistake twice, pussy.

Tell 'em the truth and they call you a traitor, Talk to 'em honestly and they call you a hater.

I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperatly try to be something I'm really not; just to fit in.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

So when the devil wants to dance with you, you better say never, Because the dance with the devil might last you forever.

The military ain't there for the people's protection, They're just there to protect an investment. That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested, Connected streets are infested with those tired of protesting. Traumatized children grown in guerrilla garrisons, 9/11 generations pale in comparison. And you will learn a lesson repeated through history: That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory.

Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.

Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.

Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.

When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.

You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else

True wealth is having your health, and knowledge of self.

Maybe we'll stop training our kids to stop looking at someone and automatically seeing them as Black or White or of this religion or that one etc, and instead, as a human being. Maybe we can stop forcing our ideas like, "I don't want them to marry this person because they are of this religion or this color" on them.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.

The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.

I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza

My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".

Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.

My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.

I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.

Just because I choose to question religion doesn't mean that I'm spitting in God's face; it's the opposite. I'm tired of people spitting in God's face. I'm tired of seeing these divisions over a different type of Christianity, over a different type of Islam.

Read between the lines and free your mind

The Government covers their own ass from things they fail to do to protect its own people from corporations that control the government, which is the reason we don't have checks and balances in this country. They checked how much balance they needed to influence congress and all the other branches of government in some way, shape, or form, and cash is king.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.

Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing; we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.

The interesting thing about that is one of the greatest critics of socialism and leftwing writings was Robert Michels who wrote a series of essays called "The Iron Law of Oligarchy" and in these essays he discusses how no matter what sorts of freedoms are advertised or put into a society structure, that all societies, all form of governments - whether they be a Roman republic, whether they be a democracy, whether they be a Russian communist system, whatever, a tribe... a tribal council - all of the continuously, throughout the ages, have all converted back into an oligarchy.

The business of beauty isn't a natural model; It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard

Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.

I've had lots of discussions with my Muslim brothers and sisters who have said to me, "Christianity is a white man's religion" But I'm like, "how is that possible when Christianity went into Africa before it ever went into central Europe?" Even the first people to become a Christian nation were not Romans, they weren't the Byzantines either, they weren't the Greeks... the first people to claim a Christian empire were the Armenians.