Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared," or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive, and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. —Audre Lorde More about this quote Tags: freedom silence change anger disruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans. I'm not sure motivation is always a good thing. You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching tv, . . . and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: trouble motivation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone. —Nadège Richards More about this quote Tags: talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. —Terry Eagleton More about this quote Tags: change inevitability resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom — that the current economic and political system is the only possible one — the first reaction you are likely to get is a demand for a detailed architectural blueprint of how an alternative system would work, down to the nature of its financial instruments, energy supplies, and policies of sewer maintenance. Next, you are likely to be asked for a detailed program of how this system will be brought into existence. Historically, this is ridiculous. When has social change ever happened according to someone's blueprint? —David Graeber More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control — your mind and your mouth. —Molefi Kete Asante More about this quote Tags: mind authority control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To speak out against an unjust war was treasonous; to speak against the treatment of blacks made you a communist. But if you feel in your heart that you have a responsibility to advance justice and human rights, then do it. —Harry Belafonte More about this quote Tags: responsibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: society change thinking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. —Evita Peron More about this quote Tags: light darkness sun shadow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right. —Phil Crosby More about this quote Tags: right Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic. —Walter Annenberg More about this quote Tags: art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life. —George A. Smith More about this quote Tags: God kindness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The man as he converses is the lover; silent, he is the husband. —Honoré de Balzac More about this quote Tags: love Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What they don't tell you is that you're more confused at twenty than you were at seventeen. —Penelope Douglas in Falling Away More about this quote Tags: growing up confusion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email