Quotes About Resistance

When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Stop, people! Don't make me hurt you! What chance have you against one who can smash robots?

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

We have a large circle—all of them anti-Hitler," one participant told Inge. "And each of these friends has his own separate circle which is anti-Hitler, and so on and so forth: a great underground network against Hitler. If only someone could get them to act collectively.

The Fuhrer himself was the target of the fourth leaflet: "Every word that comes from Hitler's mouth is a lie. When he says peace, he means war, and when he blasphemously uses the name of the Almighty, he means the power of evil, the fallen angel, Satan. His mouth is the foul-smelling maw of Hell, and his might is at bottom accursed." This leaflet ended with the words "We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace.

The only way to defend anything, Hubbard wrote, was to attack.

The war was like a slow-burning campfire onto which both sides occasionally threw wood. And that's probably the way it would have continued, if not for the arrival of the Autodefensas.

Field by field, farm by farm, person by person, we were wresting the country back from the Guerrilla's clutches. Every kidnap we prevented meant one fewer family devastated and one fewer Guerrilla bargaining chip against the government. Every bag of rice confiscated from Buitre's logistics network made the Guerrilla hungrier and more demoralised.

Female erasure is and has been the essential tool used throughout history to ensure the success and continuation of patriarchal values.

If feminism was reduced to one word, it would be this: No. "No" is a boundary, spoken only by a self who claims one. Objects have neither; subjects begin at "No". Feminists said "No" and we meant it.

Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.

The courage, the will, the guts, to fight the British, even if they end up here, like you, in Cyprus. I don't know any other place in the world where this is happening.

Faithfulness to Christ always arouses opposition.

denial. It rose up out of him, and rushed towards her. He came at her with all his power, all his Skills, all

On Terra, if he'd ever attempted to work as a medical practitioner, my species would have retaliated with conservative resistance. Which meant reviving public stonings and lynch mobs. Dr.

Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.

If you put it up, I'll just take it down again." His voice lowered to a throaty hum, "And you know what happens when I take your hair down.

It's not your instincts that are the problem. It's your tendency to drown them in a bottle.

Taunt me at your peril, angel. I'm only a man. So before you tumble from heaven into my bed, be very sure it's what you want. Because once I've got you where I want you, nothing on earth or heaven will save you from me." Her mouth went dry as anticipation blazed through her body. "Then it's a good thing I don't want to be saved, isn't it?

The greater impediment was the inadequate development of a consciousness of unity in a country which was divided by barriers between religious communities, castes, language communities, between people with different social norms and practices. Joint resistance to British rule might be for the time being a unifying factor, but 'the moment the British would leave India the bond of unity thus constructed would snap'.

Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.

Because your self-preservation instinct keeps telling you, "Unless you have walls you are not safe," unconsciously you keep building them. Later, you struggle with them. This is an endless cycle. But creation is not unwilling to open to you the doors to the beyond. It is not creation's unwillingness that you are struggling with. You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself.

Yoga talks only about the barriers that you have set up, because this resistance is all that needs to be attended to. The Creator is not looking for your attention. The ropes that bind you and the walls that block you—these are one hundred percent of your making. And these are all you need to unknot and dismantle. You have no work with existence. You only have work with the existence that you have created. If