Quotes About Resistance

Didn't the secret police know the exact aroma and chemical composition of every subversive fart in Greece?

She tried to control herself rigidly, saying to herself, I won't look at him for another half hour. But all to no avail. She would sneak a glimpse, his eyes would flicker, and there she would be again, imprisoned by an amused smile and a raised eyebrow.

Don't give in to him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is.

Agora, eu ia arrastado, nesta fuga em massa, para a morte em comum, para o fogo… Isto vinha das profundezas mais recônditas e tinha acontecido.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

There are many ways of fighting. Many a man or woman has waged a good war for truth, honor, and freedom, who did not shed blood in the process. Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is the violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil.

Nobody is ever convinced by argument, anyway. They just think up new reasons for maintaining old positions and become more defensive.

deck. Gavagan rushed him, getting inside and hitting him with a right to the jaw.

arm was seized and he was thrown over Fallon's back with a flying mare. He hit the ground with a thud and Fallon fell upon him, a knee driving into his solar plexus as Fallon came down, then that

for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

We all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.

I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may

You have been running, Jo. How could you? When will you stop such romping ways?" "Never till I'm stiff and old and have to use a crutch. Don't try to make me grow up before my time, Meg. It's hard enough to have you change all of a sudden. Let me be a little girl as long as I can.

I never yield to injustice if I can help it, ...

It is not cowardly to flee temptation, and nobody whose opinion is worth having will ridicule any brave attempt to conquer one's self. Don't mind it, Charlie, but stand fast, and I am sure you will succeed.

haunted by image after image. People kneeling, beaten. People singing, beaten. Mothers, beaten. Fathers, beaten. Young, beaten. Old, knocked down or beaten. If you approached the police, beaten. If you ran away, kettled, then beaten. Pollux had known good people, seen lives saved by his fellow patrol officers. So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really

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Those who refuse will be crushed.

Hypersensitive to pressure, Rockefeller tended to stiffen up whenever he felt pushed.

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.

You know, you got to get the devil out the house 'fore you can clean it up!

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Those who use it and those who endure it are turned to stone… a soul which has entered the province of force will not escape this except by a miracle.

When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.