Rachel Caine Quotes

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

That which is given in submission becomes a medium of defiance.

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

Power is never so overwhelming that there's no room for resistance.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

I think I've always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole 'shut up and smile' theory. I haven't ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I'm not used to saying no to this man on any level.

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.