Ashes Quote by Mumia Abu-Jamal

“Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.”

— Lauren Oliver

“And do not imagine that what we are fighting for is simply the question of freedom or slavery: there is also involved the loss…

— Thucydides

“It is only when you understand the extent to which you have been traumatized—even if outside of your awareness—that you can effectively prepare for…

— Carolyn Baker

Many claim that it is insane to resist the system; but actually, it is insane not to.

— Mumia Abu-Jamal

There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk…

— Neil Gaiman

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the…

— John Cusack

“Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a…

— Rawi Hage

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save…

— Winston Churchill

the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

— Ayya Khema

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...Is there a more monstrous thought, a more convincing spectacle, a more patent affirmation of the impotence and madness of the brain? War. All…

— Blaise Cendrars

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is…

— Philip K. Dick