Quotes About Resistance

Go away, you give philosophy nothing to catch hold of.

On all vital measures, measures necessary to protect you, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no.

Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.

There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.

You don't want it, but the destiny oblige it

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

Poetry is not a luxury.

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's.

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.