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Quotes About Resistance

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
~ Edna O'Brien
I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cuando no se deja espacio a la inteligencia, nomás se escucha el estruendo de los cañones y el crepitar de la fusilería.
~ Eduardo Antonio Parra
Pablo var fyrtinn, stöðugt andsnúinn honum og vildi alltaf hafa rétt fyrir sér, en það voru þrjár óhrekjanlegar sannanir fyrir veikri skapgerð.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
He llegado al límite de mi resistencia física. Descanso apoyando ambas rodillas en el suelo y doblando la pierna izquierda hacia atrás y la pierna derecha hacia delante. Al verme en esta postura, una señora me da una moneda de pesetas veinticinco, que ingiero de inmediato para no parecer descortés.
~ Eduardo Mendoza
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
~ Edward Abbey
The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
~ Edward Abbey
The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the park service, as well as that of everyone else concerned with preserving both wilderness and civilization, to begin a campaign of resistance.
~ Edward Abbey
You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)
~ Edward Abbey
Hayduke smelled something foul in all this. A smoldering bitterness warmed his heart and nerves; the slow fires of anger kept his cockles warm, his hackles rising. Hayduke burned. And he was not a patient man.
~ Edward Abbey
Where're your papers?" "My what?" "Your I.D. -- draft card, social security, driver's license." "Don't have none. Don't need none. I already know who I am.
~ Edward Abbey
The Machine may seem omnipotent, but it is not. Human bodies and human wit, active here, there, everywhere, united in purpose, independent in action, can still face that machine and stop it and take it apart and reassemble it-if we wish-on lines entirely new. There is, after all, a better way to live.
~ Edward Abbey
Omnivorous red devils with a vicious bite, they have denuded the ground surrounding their hill, destroying everything green and living within a radius of ten feet. I cannot resist the impulse to shove my walking stick into the bowels of their hive and rowel things up. Don't actually care for ants. Neurotic little pismires. Compared to ants the hairy scorpion is a beast of charm, dignity and
~ Edward Abbey
When people can't abide things as they are, when they can't abide the present, they do one of two things ... either they ... either they turn to a contemplation of the past ... or they set about to ... alter the future. And when you want to change something ... YOU BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
~ Edward Albee
Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.
~ Edward Crankshaw
Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.
~ Anonymous
I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
~ Anonymous
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
~ Anonymous
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
~ Anonymous
It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
~ Anonymous
There is no discharge in that war.
~ Anonymous
They are of those that rebel against the light.
~ Anonymous
A stubborn and rebellious generation.
~ Anonymous
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
~ Anonymous