#kick

The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. ↗

— Richard K. Morgan

#inspirational #kickass #business

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#football #getting #hell #i #kicked

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#around #belly #books #copy #done

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#along #around #been #doing #glad

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#about #brought #circumstances #conditions #criteria

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#character #curb #kick #kind #line

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#always #been #kicking #public #public radio

I have more energy at the end than I do at the beginning. You can be so beat up that you can scarcely walk on stage but when you get to the piano the excitement kicks in, you forget about being tired. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#beat #beginning #being #end #energy

The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#free #horse #kicks #remembering #stares

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #cathedral #culture #disbelief #doing