Quotes About Resistance

Normal is fading away. Governments and industries and schools like normal, because it's easier, it scales and it's profitable. But people don't like it - we want to be who we are, not who some marketer tells us to be.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there's no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

I'm against the capturing of Eastern Orthodox temples.

Ah, gravity: thou art a heartless bitch.

She is not alone in her courage. The South is filled with an underground of sly liberals in the midst of situations hardly likely to support their efforts.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

In a jungle full of totalitarian monsters liberal democracy needs teeth.

He knew that some believed that standardization would impede innovation; that was one of the arguments people who resisted standardization were most inclined to make. But Barton was not so sure of that.

Like serious reading itself, travel has now become an act of resistance against the distractions of the electronic age, and against all the worries that weigh us down, thanks to that age. A good book deserves to be finished, just as a haunting landscape tempts further experience of it, and further research into it. Travel and serious reading, because they demand sustained focus, stand athwart the nonexistent attention spans that deface our current time on Earth.

The town was full of murderers, gamblers and whores, few of whom might be called upon to set aside their differences and fight against the supernatural forces of evil.

like cornered rats, the people of Hellion would not go down without a fight.

undertow'. It describes (...) how underneath our own everyday lives - the shopping and squabbles and weeding and trips to the vet - there's a sense of being dragged slowly off, not against our will but regardless of it. And fighting the undertow, as children are quick to learn, is not usually the best way of getting back to the beach. Floating along with it, on the other hand, can be fatal. It's really the struggle, the argument with oneself, that interests...

The Emperor Napoleon is said to have confronted Cardinal Consalvi, the secretary of state to Pope Pius VII, saying that he, Napoleon, would destroy the Church—to which the Cardinal deftly responded, "Oh my little man, you think you're going to succeed in accomplishing what centuries of priests and bishops have tried and failed to do?

They realize their ultimate doom, but they are fatalists, incapable of resistance or escape. Not one of the present generation has been out of sight of these walls.

The first stage is n-o—no. No! If that doesn't work, move up to g-o— go. Go! Get lost! That will usually work, but if it doesn't, then you have to get tough, and you say F.O.! F.O. is bound to do the trick

If the Germans come', Marshal Smigly-Rydz9 had stated only a month before, in August 1939, 'we lose our freedom. If the Russians come, we lose our souls.

Change has it's enemies.

Dominance. Control. These things the unjust seek most of all. And so it is the duty of the just to defy dominance and to challenge control.

Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!

En marzo del 2003, Rachel Corrie, una joven estadounidense que había viajado a Gaza para intentar evitar que los israelíes destruyeran hogares palestinos, se plantó frente a una excavadora Caterpillar israelí para obligar al conductor a detenerse. Pero la arrolló. Y volvió a pasar por encima de ella. Cuando sus amigos corrieron en su ayuda, dijo: «Me he partido la espalda», y murió.

Aunque cada vez más iraquíes, como el hombre de Ramadi, afirmaban que antes de la captura de Sadam no se unirían a la resistencia contra la ocupación estadounidense por miedo a que—si los estadounidenses se retiraban—el dictador volviera al poder; bien, el motivo de ese temor había sido eliminado. La pesadilla había terminado; y la pesadilla estaba a punto de empezar. Tanto para los iraquíes como para nosotros.

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

You got to where you are in your life right now by moving along the path of least resistance.