Quotes About Resistance

I have decided not to be an accomplice in my own oppression any longer, never again to hand men weapons with which to kill me.

Once we understand that patriarchy is totally dependent upon our mistrusting and thwarting and hurting one another, and that for this reason we have been deliberately, thoroughly, and fiercely indoctrinated from birth to hate and to hurt women, surely we can forgive one another and learn to resist the most central and deadly of all patriarchal mandates.

We're sinking into each other's gazes. We're like starving people gorging on cream cakes. But he's challenged me, and I'm not going to wuss out, no way. So I wrench myself away and go to pester a strange blond woman about the circus. I don't look back once, the entire time I'm talking to her. But I can feel his eyes on me all the time. Like sunshine.

I will not live by rules like those.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.

So here I am, against my will and yours too, well I know-- no one wants the man who brings bad news.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

It wasn't only our country they occupied, Irene explained to Amir Shah. They occupied our minds.

In life, new thoughts and ideas always clash with the old world order and habits.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Bridget did the only thing she could do in this situation that wouldn't end with her doing a life stint in prison. She flipped the woman off. With both hands.

In an earlier life, were you a pair of brakes?" "Try a brick wall.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

It's amazing to me how hard people work to maintain a life they hate.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

Aversion to change is denial of destiny.

A hardness to change reveals a hardness of heart.