Quotes About Resistance

There are two kinds of strength. Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.

Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.

After my book Wanderlust came out in 2000, I found myself better able to resist being bullied out of my own perceptions and interpretations. On two occasions around that time, I objected to the behavior of a man, only to be told that the incidents hadn't happened at all as I said, that I was subjective, delusional, overwrought, dishonest- in a nutshell, female.

T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.

How do you make art when the art that's all around you keeps telling you to shut up and do the dishes?

And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything in the mainstream media suggests that popular resistance is ridiculous, pointless, or criminal, unless it is far away, was long ago, or, ideally, both. These are the forces that prefer the giant remain asleep.

The status quo would like you to believe it is immutable, inevitable, and invulnerable, and lack of memory of a dynamically changing world reinforces this view.

Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns.

There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.

Women Strike for Peace was founded by women who were tired of making the coffee and doing the typing and not having any voice or decision-making role in the antinuclear movement of the 1950s. Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.

Both are trying to silence and punish women for claiming voice, power, and the right to participate.

Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit.

Her name was Africa. His name was IMF. He set her up to be pillaged, to go without health care, to starve.

we should resist on principle, even though it might be futile.

Opposition is often illusory.

supposed to walk off my block, Sherry says, like a real whiny-baby.

Notre seule défense contre eux était de leur faire peur. Mais nous leur avoins fait TROP PEUR!...

The whole magic of a plot requires that somebody be impeded from getting something over with.

La naturaleza tomó la precaución de que las ideas sean invisibles. Es el último refugio de la rebelión.

aber es gab keine Razzien in den Lasterhöhlen mehr. Jedermann wusste, dass Lasterhöhlen jedem wirklich revolutionären Klima abträglich waren.

Some guys—a lot of guys—don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or think or believe.

Ich muss Sie darauf hinweisen, dass Sie im Augenblick bis zur Hüfte in der Scheiße stecken und dass die Scheiße immer tiefer wird. Und ich nehme nicht an, dass Sie schwimmen können.