Inspiration Quotes

The spark that starts everything. Words that have launched movements, careers, and quiet revolutions.

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"The oppressed must rise not through vengeance but through the power of love and truth."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Inspiration strikes those prepared to receive it through disciplined thinking."
Slavoj Žižek
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"I believe that every person has the potential to make a difference."
Wangari Maathai
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"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito."
Wangari Maathai
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"You must be the change you wish to see in the world, and you must do it with joy."
Wangari Maathai
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"I believe in the power of ordinary people to do extraordinary things."
Wangari Maathai
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"Inspiration comes from the depths of forgetting."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Inspiration is the meeting of preparation and circumstance."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Inspiration is recognizing what was always already there."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Inspiration strikes those who are prepared to receive it."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Inspiration is the interruption of the ordinary by the extraordinary."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The impossible is what we must think and work toward."
Jacques Derrida
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"The task of criticism is to show what is possible"
Edward Said
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"The goal of criticism is to elaborate alternatives"
Edward Said
"We must turn away, once and for all, from the old Europe, and we must work and think with vigor."
Frantz Fanon
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"All becoming is becoming-minoritarian"
Gilles Deleuze
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"We are all minor, all minoritarian in relation to some norm"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Inspiration arrives only after we have abandoned the search for it."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The task of critique is to make the familiar strange once again."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Pedagogy is the practice of hope in the face of historical injustice."
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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"Inspiration is just desperation wearing a prettier mask."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Inspiration arrives only after we have ceased seeking it."
Giorgio Agamben
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"The great writers are not those who imitate life but those who create new possibilities of life."
Gilles Deleuze
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"We are all capable of creating new values and new ways of living."
Félix Guattari
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"We are all capable of thinking beyond the limits we have internalized."
Félix Guattari
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"Inspiration divorced from analysis is merely the recruitment of consent."
Max Horkheimer
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"Inspiration is not a state but a trajectory."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Reconciliation with the present state is the death of critical thought."
Theodor Adorno
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"History shows that emancipatory movements depend on the capacity of ordinary people to imagine alternatives."
Jürgen Habermas