Barricades Quotes

• Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism . . . We advance.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Lying, Labyrinth, Deceit

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• You may think pain is a barricade to success, but it's usually a bridge.

  Randy Gage

  Pain, Thinking, Bridges

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• Harold, the young kids out there are not going to be willing to go to the barricades in defense of lowered transaction costs.

  Murray Rothbard

  Kids, Defense, Cost

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• Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

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• I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

  Betty Friedan

  Satisfied, Reserves, Frivolous

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• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

  Antonin Artaud

  Bombs, Language, Tyranny

  Le Monde, September 11, 1970.

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• Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.

  Gary North

  Men, Eugenics, People

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• Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.

  Katie Couric

  Inspirational, Risk, Fearless

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• According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Passion, Dust, Wind

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• Humility means that you have the courage to accept that you are eternity itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Humility, Buddhism

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• Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

  Questlove

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Pride, Emotional

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.

  Mac Davis

  Communication, Redneck, People

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• And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.

  Katie Couric

  Perfect, Road Less Traveled, Successful Business

  Katie Couric's Commencement Address at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, www.cbsnews.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

  Josh Lanyon

  Real, Lying, Knows

  Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

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• Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!

  Michael Moore

  Mother, Grateful, Firsts

  "Muzzling Moore" by Kera Bolonik, www.salon.com. January 7, 2002.

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• Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.

  Helen Humphreys

  Memories, Light, Space

  Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

  Tom Robbins

  Decision, Compulsion, Property

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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• If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Fear, Believe

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• We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didnt walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.

  Saul Williams

  Race, Ideas, Black

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• Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Stupidity, Leader

  Song: All This Useless Beauty, Album: All This Useless Beauty, 1996

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• During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

  Josh Young

  Finishing, Strange, Scene

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• This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Book, Fall

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.32, Penguin

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• One of the things I tell young people - and older people too - is that when things don't happen that you want, don't drown in discouragement. We say, "Oh, this didn't happen, so nothing good will happen." Don't barricade yourself.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  People, Want, Discouragement

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fashion, Men, Behinds

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