Quotes About Resistance

I came back to earth to kill things, so I have to expect things to fight back occasionally.

Parents cannot protect and guide without controlling and restricting. Children cannot become individuals without resisting and attacking. The process of child rearing is, therefore, inherently conflictual.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world.

There is a time to be timid. There is a time to be conciliatory. There is a time, even, to fly and there is a time to fight. And I'm going to fight like hell. (On Congressional moves toward impeachment)

A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

She didn't want to eat, but I insisted. She had already

Of course, the lower classes do not acquiesce peaceably to their exploitation; they resist, although for as long as there is private property they merely succeed in replacing one form of exploitation with another. For this reason, in the words of the Communist Manifesto, so far all the history of societies has been the history of class struggles.

He never was the pure pacifist he's made out to be anyway. He always approved of the use of violence as a last resort. Like during one of the periods when Hindus and Muslims came to deadly blows. You didn't hear this in the movie, but when the Nawab of Maler Kolta issued and order to shoot ten muslims for every Hindu who was killed in the state, Gandhi gave it his blessing

We laugh & it pits the world against us.

I wanted to hurt you but the victory is that I could not stomach it.

They want you to love the whole damn world but you won't

They want to stop but they can't stop. They don't know what they're doing.

pressed into the gravel, pressed into the dirt, pressing against each other in an effort to make the minutes stop—

You try to warn him, you tell him you will want to get inside him, and ruin him, but he doesn't listen.

The sound of sporadic gunfire echoing through the narrow streets of Dublin

Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality.

All literature is protest.

In the free world, it is customary during a strike for men to picket the entrance to a factory. They often use violence to prevent from entering any workers who choose not to join their actions. Likewise we Christians must decide to boycott hell, picketing the entrance with determination.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

Dimitri: "Why did you come here?" Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.