Quotes About Resistance

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

Ground which can be abandoned but is hard to re-occupy is called entangling.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

Art cannot be above the battle.

I do use art as a site of protest, particularly in relation to dominant narratives.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

I fear that once you put weapons in men's hands, they don't let go of them easily.

Nazis were raiding French homes, looking for Jewish children. The tragedy of the year before was that Jean Moulin, one of the famed

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even on medication, there is nothing tempting enough to make me want to rise

What do you know of a place called 'the colonies'?" "Oh, you'd not be wantin' to be goin' there, sir! 'Tis a heathen place, full up wit' barbarians. I 'ear men there actually fight fer what they believe in…