Quotes About Resistance

As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.

How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.

In the stories after the war, all the resistance heroes were dashing, sinewy types who could construct machine guns from paperclips. And the Germans either raised their godlike blond heads through open tank hatches to watch broken cities scroll past, or else were psychopathic, sex-crazed torturers of beautiful Jewesses. Where did the boy fit in? He made such a faint presence. It was like being in the room with a feather. But his soul glowed with some fundamental kindness, didn't it?

It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.

clinging to a dream he does not want to leave.

How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?

It was not," says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, "very easy to be good then.

the Romans were regarded as unwanted occupiers and a plot was formed to entrap and destroy the legions.

Resistance to change has been strong.

It was about growing in more efficient ways. That seemed like a reasonable idea. Why would it meet with such fierce resistance?

The Masque of Anarchy XC-XCI 'And these words shall then become Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.

Yet, unless he sets up as a saint, he need not hate himself for them. He is better employed, as it humbly seems to me, in giving thanks that power to resist was vouchsafed to him, than in fretting over wicked impulses which come unsought and extort an unwilling hospitality from the weakness of our nature.

Charles le Mesurier was quite a formidable opponent and he wouldn't have hesitated to bring the full force of the law against us if we'd crossed the line.

One day, he knew, he would have had enough. He wouldn't be able to control himself any more. And then what? He had no idea.

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Here's the problem - under both Obama and Trump, American military forces and assistance have provided just enough support to anti-Assad forces to keep the resistance going, but never enough help to actually dislodge Assad from power.

One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.