Subcomandante Marcos (Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente) Quotes

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

Subcomandante Marcos

• Enough
• Speak
• Conscience
• Uncomfortable
• Oppressed

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• Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Wisdom
  • Speak
  • Tongue

• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Achieve

• Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Strong
  • Feel
  • Enough

• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Speak

• I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Up
  • Speak

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • God
  • Me
  • Speak

• When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.

  

  Banks
  • Long
  • You
  • First

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Job
  • Enough
  • Drummer

• All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture
  • Speak

• Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Book
  • Silence
  • Speak

• Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Love
  • Enough
  • Structure

• I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Speak
  • Afraid
  • Attorney

• It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Thought
  • Speak
  • Stage

• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Speak

• Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Law
  • Moral

• You can't say, I won't write today because that excuse will extend into several days, then several months, then... you are not a writer anymore, just someone who dreams about being a writer.

  

  D. C. Fontana
  • Today

• I think, traditionally, power is perceived as something that belongs to men and is an excuse to behave in a disempowered way.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Men
  • Power
  • Think

• He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Hurt
  • Persons
  • Boys

• Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Smoke

• Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • Conscience