"And clenching your fist for the ones like……" — Leonard Cohen

And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed… - Leonard Cohen

"And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty."

— Leonard Cohen

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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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