Quotes About Resistance

Of all the high-ranking Christian leaders across Nazi-occupied Europe, Bishop Damaskinos of Greece was the only one who publicly stood up to denounce the Nazis' deportation of Jews.

In many respects, the conquests were swift and largely bloodless. Instead of the usual scenes of wanton death and destruction, the cities and towns occupied by the Arabs were treated almost gently, and seem to have welcomed the exchange of rulers. Given the disarray of both the Persian and the Byzantine armies in the region, and the absence of strong organized resistance, that makes sense. There was, in essence, no need for substantial violence.

Tell him to go to hell.

I didn't come all this way not to let some lunatic old man tie me to a chair and feed me mind-melting poisons. "I

I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.

?tim ce e botni?a. Punem botni?e boilor cînd r?li??m porumbul pe mo?iile boiere?ti. Altfel boii ar lua între buze vîrfurile porumbului. Le punem botni?e cînd îi înjug?m la secer?toare, vara, la seceri?, s? nu m?nînce cumva cîteva spice de grîu boieresc. Acum boierul a adus ?i pentru noi botni?e, s? nu-i gust?m strugurii.

As we have been claiming, the global capitalist order cannot be (and to date has not been) defeated with local or national resistance; what we need instead is an even more combative universalism, or what we've been calling universality, in the form of transnational governance bodies such as the EU.

A universal politics thus cannot and must not denigrate sites of resistance that do not align immediately with the workers' struggle. Quite the contrary, it takes as axiomatic the shift from one revolutionary agent to "proletarian positions": "an explosive combination of different agents" is the path for a "new emancipatory politic." The challenge is how to unify these proletarian positions around a common struggle.

A pessimistic orientation does not seek accommodations with the system.

War can only be abolished through war ... in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.

Most humans who have been reared with the creature comforts of the spiritually vacuous industrialized Western world will cease their search [for Truth] at the first signs of physical, psychic, or mundane resistance; or as soon as they encounter the difficulties of dissolving deeply entrenched self-delusions. Look at the world around you, and tell me that it appears to be filled with people genuinely in search of Truth!

What am I going to do? Not read, anyway… I hate reading! Finally change that leaky shower head? Never! At least this way there's somebody to cry over my fate.

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

the largest locomotive in the world can be held in its tracks while standing still simply by placing a single one-inch block of wood in front of each of the eight drive wheels. The same locomotive moving at 100 miles per hour can crash through a wall of steel-reinforced concrete five feet thick. That

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.

It is always difficult, the transition from noisy refusal to humble acceptance.

She gave a single low cry, little more than a loud gasp, as I landed on top of her. In trying desperately to stay light I inevitably made myself heavier. Sod's law. I

I think my mother secretly hoped that I'd turn into one of those girlie girls. It wasn't her fault that I firmly resisted any attempts to mould me into an ideal daughter. You can take a girl to ballet lessons as much as you like, but you can't necessarily make her into a ballerina.

Qu'est-ce qu'on a à se laisser écraser par l'ennemi, pendant qu'on se contente de bredouiller poliment qu'on n'est pas d'accord ?

The non-Jewish Arab population of mandate Palestine, initially twice the size of the Yishuv, supported by Muslims throughout the Middle East, strongly resisted the Jewish intrusion into what they perceived as their nation.

Calling themselves the "United Nations," in Washington twenty-six countries at war with one or all of the Axis nations—including the United States, Britain and its dominions, China, the European governments-in-exile, and the Soviet Union—pledged to fight and defeat "the . . . forces of conquest

Perhaps you would be better off finding some way to embrace your new nature, instead of fighting it.