Quotes About Resistance

Oppressive bastards, think they own the place. I told them that karma's going to kick their asses....

The school board banned one of Maya Angelou's books, so the librarian had to take down her poster. I fished it out of the trash. She must be a great writer if the school board is scared of her.

I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

Freedom would not be handed to us like a gift. Freedom had to be fought for and taken.

You can't speak up for your right to be silent, that's letting the bad guys win.

THE MAN THAT SAYS SLAVES BE QUITE HAPPY IN SLAVERY—THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO BE FREE—THAT MAN IS EITHER IGNORANT OR A LYING PERSON. —MARY PRINCE, BORN 1778, THE FIRST WOMAN TO WRITE ABOUT HER LIFE IN SLAVERY

The only way to achieve freedom is to fight for it.

First the man takes a drink, as one hears it said, and then the drink takes a drink. And even if that's where it stops, before the third step of and then the drink takes the man

When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.

Some characters in the world are marked down for self-destruction, and to these no amount of rational argument can appeal.

I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being's fibers need to hit the gym.

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.

In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

In science, new ideas are at first completely neglected, later fiercely attacked, and finally regarded as well known.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.