Quotes About Resistance

He scarcely knew who was battling whom, who was winning, who was losing, as though he hoped that by doggedly ignoring the war it would return the favor

A jeep honked and Tariq whistled back, beaming and waving cheerfully. Lovely guns! he yelled. Fabulous jeeps! Fabulous army! Too bad you're losing to a bunch of peasants firing slingshots!

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

I'm not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker," I said (Rachel to Trent)

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall.

Yeah, well, if he tries, I'm going to burn his office down to his red stapler.

Refuse to follow where you're led (Dancing) The line begins to blur When you look too far ahead.

You're a woman,' he said. 'You can't resist me.' 'I'm gender non-binary, you shit.

Over the years we saw what worked and refined our methods. Violence didn't work. Numbers did. That's the secret, in case you are looking for the secret to resisting an imperial power, which was what we were doing through those years. Non-violent resistance of the total population, or as much of it as you can get. That's what works.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.

At this point we need them to feel disliked and outnumbered. Hell, mass numbers of people in the streets are about the only thing that scare governments, if you ask me.

Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.

Mass demonstration and insurrection are the only things that will beat them, history shows this.

Against our lives we would like to rebel, But we worry that then it would all go to hell." Aram

nonviolent civil resistance of various soft kinds is demonstrably more successful than violent resistance when it comes to actually achieving the stated goals of the resistance and changing things for the better. Chenoweth

Galileo did not want to agree. He never wanted to agree; agreeing was something other people did, with him, after they had disagreed.

Guerilla climatology. What do you call that, climatage? Attack meteorology?

All of them were arrayed against the usual resistance of entrenched power and privilege and the economic system encoding these same, but now with the food panic reminding everyone that mass death was a distinct possibility, some progress was possible, for

colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops.

Just because the need was urgent and her case was good, that didn't mean anything would change.

I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous.

No matter how much I kept telling myself that I was behaving like an idiot, it was no use.