#stance

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good! ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#abstractly #am #annoys #call #chinese

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#doing #i #i can #know #least

It's easier to write from my own life, and it's also more fun. I always write about relationships, for instance, whether they're romantic relationships, friendships, encounters... there's always a lesson to be learned from them. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#also #always #easier #encounters #friendships

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#circumstances #correlation #happy #how #little

Where there is power, there is resistance. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#leftism #power #resistance #resistance

No matter how close, you are always too far. My eyes are drawn everywhere you are... ↗

— Cora Carmack

#song-lyrics #resistance

He drew in a shaky breath. "How can you ask me to let you die?" he choked, still keeping the blade at the prince's throat. A thread of blood formed under the knife, and ran down to Ash's collar. "I'd do anything for you, Meghan. Just...not that. Not that." Gently, I reached up and closed my fingers around the knife hilt, easing it down and away from Ash's neck. Puck resisted for a moment, then stepped back with a sob. The dagger fell from his grip and clanged to the floor. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#resistance

... In fact, it wouldn't hurt if you just spent the next few days inside. You can lock yourself in your room like Isabelle." "I'm not gonna do that." "Of course your not," said Jace, "because you live to torture me, don't you?" "Not everything, Jace, is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you have to admit that the majority of things are." Clary resisted the urge to scream. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#resistance

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#resistance

Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#challenge #kiara-westford #resistance