Quotes About Resistance

D'une manière globale, je dirais que pour écrire, il faut [...] ressentir une profonde insatisfaction devant le discours majoritaire et englobant qui nie les différences et qui sclérose la pensée.

When the Communist Army took over China

Our dear comrade Jiang Qing told us, 'Smash to pieces the security and law enforcement agencies.

Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. You still bring to bear all your prior experience, but you are riding on another level. It's completely liberating.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

It is the living nature of resistance. It exists in a constant flux, changing, breeding, metastasizing. All information about it's internal processes is rendered obsolete by revelation.

If we are all bad women, then patriarchy had better watch out.

People in power fight to stay in power," says the Prophet. "This is the nature of power.

It's like living near a bakery but never eating any bread. Every day you walk the streets, the smell of it in your nose, your stomach growling, but no matter how many corners you turn, you can never enter the actual store. The

There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

As we age and plasticity declines, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to change in response to the world, even if we want to. We find familiar types of stimulation pleasurable; we seek out like-minded individuals to associate with, and research shows we tend to ignore or forget, or attempt to discredit, information that does not match our beliefs, or perception of the world, because it is very distressing and difficult to think and perceive in unfamiliar ways.

How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

El cultivo de lo superfluo y de lo que no supone beneficio puede de todos modos ayudarnos a resistir, a mantener viva la esperanza, a entrever el rayo de la luz que nos permitirá recorrer un camino decoroso.

Tired of these endless games, Time to end the darkened day To raise the sword To kill the light Because there is no reason left to fight...

En kötüsü, hay?r demeyi ö?renemedim. Yeme?e kal, dediler: kald?m. Oysa, kal?nmaz. Onlar biraz ?srar ederler; sen biraz nazlan?rs?n. Sonunda kalk?p gidilir. Her söylenileni ciddiye almak yok mu, ?u sözünün eri olmak yok mu; bitirdi, y?kt? beni.

Ben ölmek istemiyorum, ya?amak ve herkesin burnundan getirmek istiyorum, bu nedenle mutlak bir yaln?zl??a mahkum edildim.

Ben, yaln?zl??? istemekle suçlan?p yaln?zl??a mahkum edildim. Bu karara bütün gücümle muhalefet ediyorum. Ben yaln?zl??a dayanam?yorum, ben insanlar?n aras?nda olmak istiyorum.

Bizlere uygun görülen kadere her yerde kar?? ç?kmal?y?z.

Fakat, hay?r: Adnan Targa, kendisi de?ildi ki; Adnan Targa bir dekand? ve 'statüko'nun her ne pahas?na olursa olsun savunmas?n? yapmak durumundayd?.

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.