Quotes About Resistance

Twas easier to disarm the god of strength Than this Hippolytus, for Hercules Yielded so often to the eyes of beauty, As to make triumph cheap. ? Jean Racine, Phèdre

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

How in the world," Georgie demanded, "do you ever make them let you do all these things? I stuck in three innocent little thumb-tacks to-day, and Peters descended upon me bristling with wrath, and said he'd report me if I didn't pull them out." "We never ask," explained Patty. "It's the only way.

Sartre, je le jugeai plus tard sinon tout à fait gagné par la folie des mots, du moins, dans la lutte exténuante qu'il a toujours menée contre elle, enclin, corydrane aidant, à y céder.

Demokratien pflegen ihre Feinde, sie liquidieren ihre Gegner.

Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!

She fights at every moment against the scream that pulses inside her like a living thing.

ALPHA-60: Your name is written "Ivan Johnson," but it is pronounced "Lemmy Caution," Secret Agent Zero Zero Three of the Outlands. You are a threat to the security of Alphaville. CAUTION: I refuse to become what you call "normal." ... ALPHA-60: You cannot escape. The door is locked. CAUTION: Try to stop me, pal.

It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.

Adossée à cette philosophie aujourd'hui dominante, la violence est partout. Depuis le célèbre

don't wanna, don't hafta, ain't gonna'.

Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks—or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In

The league lied. They had the evidence and chose to ignore it. They had the evidence at least since 2005, when one unlikely scientist, a man from nowhere who would not go away, who would not back down, found proof.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.

The answer is to stop struggling, to go into the fear. Let her go. The cause of the unhappiness isn't the situation, but the resistance. You're making disease and decay and death evil, but they're not evil, they just are. The clinging is the cause of the unhappiness. Release is the answer. Let her sink.

What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural lovings and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?

Het verschrikkelijke hier is dat ge al de tijd van de wereld hebt en dat z' u niks laten doen.

I don't need this, I was thinking. But I'm weak. I'll be the first to admit it. If a chick presses her face against mine, all soft perfume and whispers, what am I going to do? Say no?

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

When things get personal, we need to resist the natural male instinct to run for cover, man the defenses, or--worst of all--reach for the big guns. Much better to set aside our natural defensiveness and focus on listening well even though we feel under attack. Because we're probably not.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

Size matters not. Inertia, however, is a pain in the butt." -Mander Zuma