Quotes About Resistance

I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

I never wanted to be a writer.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.

I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

Qualquer casualidade da luta é erro deles, não nosso. Nós não adotamos a violência, mas não negamos sua existência. Como podemos negá-la, se seus efeitos estão ao nosso redor?

A burnt broom that has had enough, and refuses to burn further...

The world was a set of alternations, resistance and persistence, writ up in lake and the distant Alpine peaks of eastern Switzerland. In fact, the world was no easier to understand than Bach.

You could catalog the thousand ways people shrink from life, as if chance and change are by their nature toxic, disfiguring.

I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.

If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.

The harder the push, the greater the Rebel push-back. I laughed when a Rebel friend told me, 'No one can tell me to do anything. I recently got an email saying Please read in the subject line, and I immediately deleted it.

You hate your destination so much you want to postpone showing up for as long as possible.

This freedom from decision making is crucial, because when I have to decide—which often involves resisting temptation or postponing gratification—I tax my self-control.