Quotes About Resistance

Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood, " she said. "make me pretty.

Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

They don't want you to jet ski, they don't want you to smile.

I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Smile, but not for long, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Patriarchy.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

It does not matter how many people chose moral duty over the rationality of self-preservation, what does matter is that some did. Evil is not all-powerful. It can be resisted. The testimony of the few who did resist shatters the authority of the logic of self-preservation. It shows it for what it is in the end: a choice.

A society notorious for effacing the boundary which once separated the private from the public, for making it a public virtue and obligation to publicly expose the private, and for wiping away from public communication anything that resists being reduced to private confidences, together with those who refuse to confide them.

Los sentimientos de injusticia que podrían ser aprovechados para conseguir una mayor igualdad se reorientan hacia las manifestaciones más claras del consumismo, y se dividen en miríadas de quejas individuales que se resisten a la agregación o a la combinación, y en actos esporádicos de envidia y venganza dirigidos contra otras personas de su propio bando.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

La vie est une routine et la routine est la résistance à l'émerveillement.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.

The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

If at any point on or in the vicinity of the military line, which is now used between the City Philadelphia and the City of Washington, via Perryville, Annapolis City, and Annapolis Junction, you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety, you, personally or through the officer in command at the point where the resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.

What was maddening was not the anti-Americanism, which is understandable and even, in its Astérix-style resistance to American domination, admirable. What is maddening is the bland certainty, the lack of vigilant curiosity, the incapacity for critical self-reflection, the readiness to afficher erreur distante and wait for somebody else to change the paper.

how often life was about not wanting to be doing what it was you were supposed to be doing.

Many of our subjects eagerly lust after Portuguese merchandise that your subjects have brought into our domains. To satisfy this inordinate appetite, they seize many of our black free subjects. . . . They sell them . . . after having taken these prisoners [to the coast] secretly or at night. . . . As soon as the captives are in the hands of white men they are branded with a red-hot iron.