Quotes About Challenge

Nos hemos pasado demasiado tiempo arrepintiéndonos de ser mujeres —decía— y tratando de demostrar que no lo somos, como si serlo no fuera nuestra principal fuerza, pero no más: vamos a tomar cada estereotipo femenino y llevarlo hasta las últimas consecuencias.

Comunicar los deseos imaginados y las imágenes deseadas es la tarea más ardua.

Let this grisly beginning be none other to you than is to wayfarers a rugged and steep mountain.

El martirio de la humanidad es doble: para el macho, la más dura fatiga: el pensar; para la hembra, la más espantosa tortura: el parir.

Desde entonces comenzó la guerra entre los hombres y yo.

Atunci de ce v? obosiÈ›i explicând ceea ce am spus eu, în loc s? m? întreceÈ›i È™i s? m? desfiinÈ›aÈ›i cu alte opere? Dac? am spus bine ceea ce am spus, pentru ce o spuneÈ›i voi din nou într-un mod mizerabil? Dac? alÈ›ii nu pricep vorbele mele, merit? oare s?-i faceÈ›i s? le priceap?, chiar aÈ™a cum le-am însemnat È™i le-am gravat eu în serile cele mai spumeg?toare ale inspiraÈ›iei mele?

Insomma una brutta domenica di settembre, di quel settembre traditore che vi lascia andare un colpo di mare fra capo e collo, come una schioppettata fra i fichidindia.

What did Duncan have with which to organize pointless, brutal life?

There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them.

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS.

Playing may be easy, but playing the right way is not. ("Interpretations," A Cultural History of the Theatre in the Middle Ages, ed. Jody Enders, (London: Bloomsbury, 2017), 136.)

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

I can't read Mason & Dixon , since my mind's so shitty, I can't process it!

But that slippery slope is already rearing its head . . . .

Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around the world that its power was constrained by neither law nor ethics, neither morality nor the Constitution: look what we can do and will do to those who impede our agenda.

the job of the press is to disprove the falsehoods that power invariably disseminates to protect itself.

what goals drive all institutions of authority. "Doing something wrong," in the eyes of such institutions, encompasses far more than illegal acts, violent behavior, and terrorist plots. It typically extends to meaningful dissent and any genuine challenge. It is the nature of authority to equate dissent with wrongdoing, or at least with a threat.

The evidence shows that assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who "have done something wrong" should provide little comfort, since a state will reflexively view any challenge to its power as wrongdoing.

Doing something wrong," in the eyes of such institutions, encompasses far more than illegal acts, violent behavior, and terrorist plots. It typically extends to meaningful dissent and any genuine challenge. It is the nature of authority to equate dissent with wrongdoing, or at least with a threat. The

assurances that surveillance is only targeted at those who "have done something wrong" should provide little comfort, since a state will reflexively view any challenge to its power as wrongdoing. *

Progress both in the United States and other nations was only ever achieved through the ability to challenge power and orthodoxies and to pioneer new ways of thinking and living.

This is the case in every society: those who pose no challenge are rarely targeted by oppressive measures, and from their perspective, they can then convince themselves that oppression does not really exist. But the true measure of a society's freedom is how it treats its dissidents and other marginalized groups, not how it treats good loyalists.

Progress both in the United States and other nations was only ever achieved through the ability to challenge power and orthodoxies and to pioneer new ways of thinking and living. Everyone, even those who do not engage in dissenting advocacy or political activism, suffers when that freedom is stifled by the fear of being watched.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.