Quotes About Resistance

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think 'My life will be upside down' don't worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you.

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

Chapter Thirteen GARBAGE IN THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY (HOLD THE GOAT)

While Control came with whispers about being part of a kind of invisible dynasty, which naturally bred resentment. There was no denying that fact, even if, up close, the dynasty was more like a devolving franchise.

Perhaps because trees did not resist. Trees fell over on their own accord, sometimes, as if to prove their love for the ax. The chainsaw that felled most of them just completed a trees own inevitable thought.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

The authorities of the Southern States immediately after, and in some cases a few days before, their actual secession, took possession (in every instance without resistance or bloodshed) of forts, arsenals, custom-houses, and other public property within their respective limits.

In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over the failure to find a love none of us could ever be. In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was handed down to them, so full of flaws.

Paradigm challenges are never suffered lightly by the orthodox establishment in any field.