Top 80 Immortal Technique Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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

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4. “Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.”

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5. “You can not change the past but you can change the future.”

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6. “Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “I won’t trade humanity for patriotism.”

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9. “I Freestyle my Destiny, It’s not written in Pages.”

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10. “Read between the lines and free your mind.”

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11. “Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.”

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

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

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14. “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.”

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15. “Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, this is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, cause almost everything I was ever told was a lie.”

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

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

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

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

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

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21. “The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it’s not you who changes the system; it’s the system that will eventually change you.”

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22. “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.”

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

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24. “If your religion hasn’t made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.”

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25. “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.”

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

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27. “Attempts to extinguish me don’t even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done.”

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28. “Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.”

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29. “The ‘king of hip hop’ is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “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.”

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

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

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34. “I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac, and slipknot.”

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

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36. “I think that as much as any leader is marketed we have to learn that unless we inject ourselves specifically and link our revolution to the economic struggle of our people and address those specific issues then we’re never really going to have control of what happens.”

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37. “It isn’t me making money as much as it is me spending my money in a way that I feel is effective. My methodology is to say I’m not just going to throw money at a problem but rather personally invest myself in it.”

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38. “The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.”

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39. “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”.”

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40. “You don’t have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, “Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can’t even save yourself? Why don’t you try to affect one person’s life who’s in your life, and that would be historic.””

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41. “I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it’s at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.”

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42. “I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.”

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45. “I wasn’t always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots.”

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46. “I’m baptized by America and covered in leeches.”

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47. “Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.”

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48. “I have favourite songs for different things. The diversity of it is the strength.”

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49. “I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you’ve probably never heard.”

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50. “You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!”

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