Fendor

“Nós, que estamos vivos, neste momento, somos apenas uma parte infinitesimal de algo que existe há uma eternidade e continuará a existir, quando não houver mais nada servindo como prova da existência da Terra.
Entretanto, precisamos sentir e acreditar que somos tudo.
Essa é a nossa responsabilidade — não apenas para conosco mesmos, mas para com tudo e todos com quem partilhamos o nosso tempo de existência.”
― Liv Ullmann, Changing

“Anger is an energy. It really bloody is. It’s possibly the most powerful one-liner I’ve ever come up with. When I was writing the Public Image Ltd song ‘Rise’, I didn’t quite realize the emotional impact that it would have on me, or anyone who’s ever heard it since. I wrote it in an almost throwaway fashion, off the top of my head, pretty much when I was about to sing the whole song for the first time, at my then new home in Los Angeles. It’s a tough, spontaneous idea. ‘Rise’ was looking at the context of South Africa under apartheid. I’d be watching these horrendous news reports on CNN, and so lines like ‘They put a hotwire to my head, because of the things I did and said’, are a reference to the torture techniques that the apartheid government was using out there. Insufferable. You’d see these reports on TV and in the papers, and feel that this was a reality that simply couldn’t be changed. So, in the context of ‘Rise’, ‘Anger is an energy’ was an open statement, saying, ‘Don’t view anger negatively, don’t deny it – use it to be creative.’ I combined that with another refrain, ‘May the road rise with you’. When I was growing up, that was a phrase my mum and dad – and half the surrounding neighbourhood, who happened to be Irish also – used to say. ‘May the road rise, and your enemies always be behind you!’ So it’s saying, ‘There’s always hope’, and that you don’t always have to resort to violence to resolve an issue. Anger doesn’t necessarily equate directly to violence. Violence very rarely resolves anything. In South Africa, they eventually found a relatively peaceful way out. Using that supposedly negative energy called anger, it can take just one positive move to change things for the better. When I came to record the song properly, the producer and I were arguing all the time, as we always tend to do, but sometimes the arguing actually helps; it feeds in. When it was released in early 1986, ‘Rise’ then became a total anthem, in a period when the press were saying that I was finished, and there was nowhere left for me to go. Well, there was, and I went there. Anger is an energy. Unstoppable.”
― John Lydon, Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

“Free will, that bitch of a thing. Given the freedom to choose, we human beings will always make the wrong choice, every damn time.”
― Gemma Files, Experimental Film

“Para entonces hasta yo estaba empezando a tener una ligera idea de qué se trataba. O sea, una lucha entre individuos. Y una lucha que el ganarla lo supone todo. El ser humano no obedece a nadie. Hasta los esclavos llevan a cabo entre ellos mismos sus venganzas mezquinas. Los seres humanos no pueden relacionarse más allá de la rivalidad entre ganar y perder. A pesar de que colocan a sus esfuerzos etiquetas con nombres grandilocuentes, al final su objetivo es exclusivamente individual y, una vez logrado, de nuevo sólo queda el individuo. La incomprensibilidad de la sociedad es la del individuo. Y el océano no es la sociedad sino los individuos que la forman. Y yo, que vivía atemorizado por el océano llamado «sociedad», logré liberarme de ese miedo.”
― Osamu Dazai