Quotes About Resistance

N-am avut puterea s? te înl?tur din viaÅ£a mea când, biologic, planetar, emoÅ£ional, metafizic, psihanalitic, ar fi trebuit.

L'esprit saura se priver de puissance, disait Alain, de toute espèce de puissance ; tel est le plus haut règne » et la leçon du calvaire2312. Et Simone Weil : « Quiconque prend l'épée périra par l'épée. Et quiconque ne prend pas l'épée (ou la lâche) périra sur la croix

Art begins with resistance—at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

C'est souvent lorsqu'elle est le plus désagréable à entendre qu'une vérité est le plus utile à dire, et lorsqu'elle risque de rencontrer l'opposition la plus vive. Mais il y a souvent péril à ne point souffler dans le sens du vent.

But, matters now going as they seemed to be, that life would probably not be long. Best spend it doing all I could to withstand the Shadow.

Because feminism is a movement for liberation of the powerless by the powerless in a closed system based on their powerlessness, right-wing women judge it a futile movement. Frequently they also judge it a malicious movement in that it jeopardizes the bargains with power that they can make; feminism calls into question for the men confronted by it the sincerity of women who conform without political resistance.

Jeder richtige Gedanke ist eine wahrhafte Eroberung für Frauen unter der Herrschaft von Männern. Sie wissen nicht, wie schwer es ist, freundlich zu sein. Unser Unterdrücker verbreitet seine Version von uns überall, auf Wänden, in den Zeitungen, auf der Kinoleinwand. Wie Giftgas sickert sie ein. Jedes Wort, das wir äußern, ist eine Erklärung unserer Rechte. Jede Geste ist ein Bekenntnis. Ich mache Gesten.

Nous avons dit non. (...) Il y a une réponse à notre non. Un fusil semi-automatique est une réponse. Il y a aussi des poignards. Ce que nous vivons n'est pas une conversation plaisante. sur la tuerie de Montréal

Und ich hasse die Mittelschichts-Blödmänner, die so viel zu sagen haben, aber nie einen einzigen verdammten Tag mit dem Versuch verbracht haben, am Leben zu bleiben.

God being willing and whether traitors be few or many I intend to fight them to the end.

it was as if everything conspired to keep him from prayer.

Sin which is not confessed is also not combated

Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it

The artists found out long ago that the way to combat a government that presents lies as if they were the truth is to tell the truth as if it were a joke. Humor became a means of encoded communication, and so long as they made jokes they could be vocal and invulnerable.

acts of defiance are their own reward.

The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

People do tend to avoid new realities; they'd rather just add details to the old ones. It's as simple as that.

Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Why do we fight the things we fight when giving into them isn't so bad at all?

A culture of resisting arrest would be a very bad thing to cultivate given that the only response to such resistance is for the police to increase their use of force.