Courage Quotes

Fear is universal. So is the choice to act despite it. These quotes honor that choice.

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"Courage is not the absence of fear but the willing acceptance of it."
Weil, Simone
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"We are responsible not just for our actions but for our silence."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Dialogue requires the courage to be genuinely transformed by another."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Courage is the willingness to be broken and remade."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"We must struggle for a different future."
Althusser, Louis
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"Courage is the acceptance of what cannot be mastered."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Courage is the facing of what we cannot overcome."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"We must learn to embrace the inner animal that society demands we suppress."
Bataille, Georges
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"Courage is the willingness to become what society has forbidden."
Bataille, Georges
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"Each man must, according to his ability, share in defending the State."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Courage is the willingness to act despite fear."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Courage is the willingness to confront reality as it truly is."
Lukács, György
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
Russell, Bertrand
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"When you are learning to fight, you are learning to die."
Russell, Bertrand
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"To speak is to risk everything."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Courage is the facing of that which terrifies."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"To be truly radical is to understand that even our acts of resistance can be recuperated by the system."
Althusser, Louis
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"True freedom means the ability to say no."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"We seek limits only to experience the ecstasy of breaking them."
Bataille, Georges
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"The sovereign moment arrives when you stop calculating and start bleeding."
Bataille, Georges
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"One must have clear ideas and be willing to use force when necessary."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"The revolutionary must be a person of culture as well as action."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"A revolutionary movement must be rooted in the deepest feelings and aspirations of the people."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Understanding requires the courage to go against the grain."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Courage is the refusal to accept the administered world as inevitable."
Horkheimer, Max
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"To think against the current requires courage and clarity of vision."
Lukács, György
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"True negation means saying no to the entire system"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Real freedom demands the courage to think the unthinkable"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Critical negativity is the only appropriate response to the status quo"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Resistance begins when we stop taking the dominant order as given and natural."
Althusser, Louis