Quotes About Resistance

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

But the 1920 edition of the Spanish influenza virus was an attenuated variant of the original strain, and the human population was more resistent than in 1918 and 1919.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Books won't stay banned - Ideas won't go to jail.

todo es tan limpio que cuando nos acercamos a la caja con nuestra bandeja y la mujer nos pregunta si deseamos agregarle alguna salsa a lo que vamos a comer, provoca decirle no gracias, mosquéemelo un poquito

They have put it into my mind; try your hardest to prevent their putting it into yours.

This hand, unfriendly to tyrants,Seeks with the sword placid repose under liberty.

I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.

When the state is not kind, then the people are fodder.

I would rather die and to go hell than wake up one day and find myself an inmate in that guesthouse of gone minds, gone things, bad carpets, furniture that needs permission.

Poems should be written rarely and reluctantly, under unbearable duress, and only with the hope that good spirits, not evil ones, choose us for their instrument.

And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.

Instantly two of the girls seized her and, as she involuntarily opened her lips to scream, one thrust a ball of clean rags into her mouth, thrusting it in so far that it effectually gagged her, nor could she expel the ball from her mouth.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion

The others adapted, for nothing quelled a revolution more quickly—wrote Pauline Schulz—than the prevailing powers inviting it in for drinks.

I can't remember to be tempted.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

Slechte man, slechte daemon. Je hebt eerder tegen ze gevochten. Je moet weer tegen ze vechten. - Matilda

Trotseer ze, Bloem-Alice-Claire. Bied weerstand aan hun overheersing. Daar ben je sterk genoeg voor. Je bent altijd een rebel geweest, altijd op zoek naar verklaringen waar anderen de dingen klakkeloos accepteerden... Je hebt nooit toegegeven, liefje, je bent nooit met de kudde meegehobbeld. - Al

So I'm coming, like it or not." "You can't. You've got to get out." "Make me," Joe said. "Okay, kids," Mr. Benson settled himself behind the wheel. "Game time. Everybody ready to go?" "I'm ready," Emma said. "Can we drop you anywhere, Joe?" "No," Joe said. "I'm coming with you. Mike invited me." Mr. Benson turned around and stared at Michael. "You want to tell me what's going on here?" he said.

The Guns of Navarone