Quotes About Resistance

Non andartene docile in quella buona notte, Benché i saggi conoscano alla fine che la tenebra è giusta infuria, infuria, contro il morire della luce.

Do not go gentle into that good night

"there is some s. I will not eat"

i sing of Olaf glad and bigwhose warmest heart recoiled at war

They want you to be small and silent. Good was just another word for don't fight back.

We didn't sob and bleed, we did something instead. Made a change." "Kind of,"says Mirren. "Are you kidding? We burned that fucking palace to the ground.

We should not let the family fall apart. We should not accept an evil we can change. We would stand up against it, would we not? Yes. We should. We would be heroes, even.

But how can people?" they exclaimed, when anything was attacked, and subscribed to Defence Societies.

There are no truces in cultural warfare. The law of cultural life is either occupy your own cultural territory or have it occupied by alien forces.

I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.

Be silent!" shrieked the beldame. "I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!

The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.

At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.

They have yielded to the only enemy that matters - the enemy within.

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel. Its instinct is to assume that nothing either for good or evil has happened, and to resist the invader. Once gripped, it feels acutely, and its sensations in love are particularly profound. Given time, it can know and impart ecstasy; given time, it can sink to the heart of Hell.

Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.

Against my will I have become normal.

She strove in vain against the echoing walls of their civility.

Against my will I have become normal. I cannot help it.

Conseguia controlar o corpo; era a alma maculada que fazia pouco das suas preces.

And so with the mouldy artificial fruit, so with the bath water that began to stink, so with the defective rhymes that the poetry machine had taken to emit. All were bitterly complained of at first, and then acquiesced in and forgotten. Things went from bad to worse unchallenged. It was otherwise with the failure of the sleeping apparatus. That was a more serious stoppage.

He no play-da-game. He no make-a-da rules!

The global attack on women, and the connected attempt by right-wing populism to reshape them into characters from The Handmaid's Tale, excludes no nationality, no social class, no religion and no privilege.

Bakhtin knew that only those who had witnessed carnivalesque resistance could really understand one another, even if they were separated by centuries. And he knew all too well, as anyone who witnessed the joyful resistance movements of the early twenty-first century did, that mass laughter leaves a permanent mark on your soul, even after the resistance falls apart, changing the very fabric of all who participated in it.