Quotes About Resistance

Usually, boycotts sometimes don't really accomplish anything besides the fact that you show you that don't agree with what's going on.

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

Nobody wants to fight Brian Stann. I'm not the only guy, and that's not a big secret.

You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it. And then, there are the movies you can't stop from being made because they just want to be made.

I guess there's a part of me that loves institutionalism. And borstal is tailor-made for you to buck against. It was perfect.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

I like working emotions that can take you beyond your life. And yet you have to resist them in order remain within your life. Otherwise, you're burned. I like that fight. It's more of a fight with yourself.

If China stood on an equal basis with other nations, she could compete freely with them in the economic field and be able to hold her own without failure. But as soon as foreign nations use political power as a shield for their economic designs, then China is at a loss how to resist or to compete successfully with them.

I think we all want to successfully push back the aging process, to deny the aging process. Who among us says, 'Yippee, I'm getting older'?

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.'

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

But 'Love My Way,' it would be incredibly difficult to resist jumping back in all these years later. I think it would be a very interesting thing to do. We have all moved on with different things. It was such a long time ago but, because the drama was so beautifully written and crafted, it would be irresistible probably.

Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.

I wanted to write about the Trump era, but I didn't want to write, 'Fascism sucks' or 'Trump sucks.' That doesn't get you anywhere.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

If the radio ever played my music, I would sue them. And they know it, which is why they don't play my music.

We all know how evolution works, except one industry that refuses to evolve: the entertainment industry. Instead of looking at evolution as something inevitable, the industry has made it their business to refuse and/or sue change, by any necessary means.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.