Quotes About Resistance

Change was Fate' the Romans said. well, Andreas loathed Fate, That Bitch.

No." She smiled. "I am exactly where I need to be. I have no desire to enter negotiations with Lord Garrett and his heir." He couldn't keep down his dark pleasure at that.

As the historian David Bellos has concluded: 'About one third of all Jews resident in France were deported and murdered … but only one Jewish child in ten perished in the years of German occupation and that was very largely because of the courage and skill of people like Hélène Berr and the kindness and generosity of a vast network of French well-wishers who took Jewish children and hid them.' Notwithstanding, 11,400 French children died.

Though they washed her with wineand rubbed her with butterit was to no avail.She lay as still as a gold piece.

They could not listen. They could not stop. What they did was the death dance. What they did would do them in.

He liked to introduce himself to his new victims with: "I am Kees Kaptein, the greatest Jew crusher in the Netherlands!

They knew where they were going by then—Ravensbrück, the concentration camp set up by Himmler in 1938 for all the women who did not fit the Aryan Kinder-Küche-Kirche ideal: criminals, prostitutes, Roma, and, in recent years, increasing numbers of Resistance fighters from all over Europe.

The truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually," he told Bellini, that every man in Europe "must be either the hammer or the anvil.

The status quo represents a mental account that we already have open, which has sunk costs associated with it, the time, money, or effort that has already been put into the way we've been doing things. Closing that account by switching to a new option can make us feel like we are wasting those resources we have already spent. We also become endowed to the status quo, taking ownership of the decisions that have kept us in that groove and anything we have created along the way.

our brains evolved to create certainty and order. We are uncomfortable with the idea that luck plays a significant role in our lives. We recognize the existence of luck, but we resist the idea that, despite our best efforts, things might not work out the way we want. It feels better for us to imagine the world as an orderly place, where randomness does not wreak havoc and things are perfectly predictable.

Aujourd'hui, je sens réellement le temps reculer vers la réception de demain, c'est-à-dire m'emporter vers la vérité, que je lirai dans ses paroles et son comportement, sans que je puisse résister.

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Questa maniera di scrivere, che mi pare andare nella direzione della verità, mi aiuta a uscire dalla solitudine e dall'oscurità del ricordo individuale tramite la scoperta di un significato più generale. Ma sento che qualcosa in me oppone resistenza, vorrei conservare di mia madre delle immagini puramente affettive, il calore o le lacrime, senza dar loro un senso.

Thus ever to tyrants.

Early on, when I first started acting professionally, it was really important for me to get my parents on board, because they were so against it.

If you take over a programme from a longstanding incumbent, not everyone's going to like it.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

We are no longer demonstrators. We are not actors, we are now people committed to the proposition that if the government won't stop the war, we will stop the government.

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

Cheap labor explains why there is so much resistance to protecting America's border.

We protest to our last breath against the purveyors of hatred, cruelty and violence.

I'm like a one-woman protest machine.

I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music.