Quotes About Resistance

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.

You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily.

Please, Mogget," whispered Lirael, too soft to be heard by anyone at all. But the white shape did hear. It stopped and turned inwards, to face Orannis, changing from a pillar of fire to a more human shape, but one with skin as bright as a burning star. "I am Yrael," it said, casting a hand out to throw a line of silver fire into the breaking spell-ring, its voice crackling with force. "I also stand against you.

I'm not going," he said. He held up the Third key like a weapon. Sensing his mood, it grew longer and sharper, till he was holding a trident as long as he was tall... "And anyone who tries to make me is going to suffer." "Twice," added the voice under the table.

How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'?

When temptation heats up, look for the way of escape our loving God has provided. — Jossy Grey

dismantling bureaucracy means dismantling traditional power structures. As you may have noticed, people with power are typically reluctant to give it up, and often have the means to defend their prerogatives. This is a serious impediment, since there's no way to build a human-centric organization without flattening the pyramid.

I didn't know it, but I was at war with myself and I was losing.

The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.

Se presionó el corazón con ambas manos para acallarlo. Pero el corazón no es el hocico de un perro e incluso cuando se sujeta con las dos manos el hocico de un perro -que ladra insoportablemente-, siempre se le oye gruñir.

Rule Number One is this: If you're open to learning, you get your life-lessons delivered as gently as the tickle of a feather. But if you're defensive, if you stubbornly persist in being right instead of learning the lesson at hand, if you stop paying attention to the tickles, the nudges, the clues—boom! Sledgehammer.

Where possible, this [Foucault's] model of [localized] resistance is not an alternative to, but can compliment, macrological struggles along 'Marxist' lines. Yet if its situation is universalized, it accomodates unacknowledged privileging of the subject. Without a theory of ideology, it can lead to a dangerous utopianism.

The old preconception that violent means always work quickly and nonviolent means always require vast time is clearly not valid. Although much time may be required for changes in the underlying situation and society, the actual fight against a dictatorship sometimes occurs relatively quickly by nonviolent struggle.

Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power. These

The common error of past improvised political defiance campaigns is the reliance on only one or two methods, such as strikes and mass demonstrations. In fact, a multitude of methods exist that allow resistance strategists to concentrate and disperse resistance as required.

The best offense is a good defense, but a bad defense is offensive.

She smiled the infinitely kind smile of a woman who will not do what you ask.

These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.

In the old times, the lords of this world feared no one but their own people, and to defend themselves against them built a great fortress on a hilltop to the north of the city...Many of the people were angry at the building of that citadel, holding it to be their right to slay their lords without hindrance if they so desired.

When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do. And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.

Nietzsche may have seen the relentless struggle of the individual as the prerequisite for his full development, the fundamental motive was at work, namely the resistance of the individual to being leveled, swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism.