Quotes About Resistance

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue to exist.

Nem sempre consigo sentir o que sei que devo sentir. O meu pensamento só muito devagar atravessa o rio a nado Porque lhe pesa o fato que os homens o fizeram usar.

Las dependencias, supongo, son vicios difíciles de quebrar.

Te veo tan hijo de puta como esos nazis que asesinaron a los judíos. Sos un criminal de guerra frustrado. Esta casa es un campo de concentración. Por la cocina corren tus alambradas electrizadas y tus perros. Yo soy la prisionera y vos el SS. Sos un guacho».

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and madmen.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ---Greatness.

No estoy de acuerdo. Hay que luchar contra todas las injusticias. —¿Querés más injusticia que vos y yo hablando día y noche del suicidio? —Pero nosotras somos intelectuales.

siempre es lo mismo: los que sufren de injusticia dan la sangre por los que sufren de injusticia. Esto me es insoportable.

Maybe someday we will find refuge in true reality. In the meantime, can I just say how opposed I am to all of this?

A grandes voces despertaron a los araucanos.

No acepto ya la condición de Hombre-Avispa, de Hombre-Ninguno, ni admito que el ritmo de mi existencia sea marcado por el mazo de un cómitre.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion

Il delitto è un padrone rigido e inflessibile, contro cui non divien forte se non chi se ne ribella interamente.

Can I just fight you now? Please? I'd rather die than continue this conversation.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.[130] (George Orwell, 1984)

We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong.... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws, and to disobey them.

There's a reason that whenever fascists come to power, the writers are among the first to go to jail.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.