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Quotes About Resistance

I don't really like being controlled by anyone.
~ Juergen Teller
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
~ Laurence J. Peter
I don't think that people in power can be convinced by words or articles. They will never give it up by choice.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.
~ Mahathir Mohamad
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
When the cops are trying to arrest you, if you fight back, things go wrong.
~ Charles Barkley
As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.
~ Rodney King
Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.
~ Ali Shaheed Muhammad
We need to not be afraid to step up and take a fight to the corruption that's in this world.
~ Madison Cawthorn
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.
~ Chadwick Boseman
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
~ Henry Miller
Nobody would let us do 'Crisis' again.
~ D. A. Pennebaker
I have a lot of critics; we all know that.
~ Hope Solo
There is always the person who's got to stand on the sandcastle, they must crush it.
~ Randy Pitchford
When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.
~ Nita Ambani
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
~ Adam Grant
Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.
~ Charles Duhigg
For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.
~ Vint Cerf
Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure.
~ Lidia Bastianich
Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.
~ Noam Chomsky
No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.
~ Prashant Bhushan
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
~ Emanuel Celler
I hate when people use my tactics against me.
~ Sean Hannity