Quotes About Resistance

People don't resist change. They resist being changed! ~ Peter Senge

even the heart rebels-finally against its own anarchy. And that's the most powerful rebellion.

IN the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt….

The United States started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill the enemies of our glorious republic to one designed to piss them off," Faith said, shooting a zombie five times, then walking up and shooting the still-thrashing infected in the head. "Seriously, just die, okay?

Architecture… the adaptation of form to resist force.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil.

Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

Oppression: Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable, doesn't mean it has to change.

The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally and temporarily with the opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty

If resistance waits till life is reduced nearly to one uniform type, all deviations from that type will come to be considered impious, immoral, even monstrous and contrary to nature. Mankind speedily become unable to conceive diversity, when they have been for some time unaccustomed to see it.

La ventaja real que la verdad tiene consiste en esto: que cuando una opinión es verdadera, puede ser extinguida una, dos o muchas veces, pero en el curso de las edades, generalmente, se encontrarán personas que la vuelvan a descubrir, y una de estas reapariciones tendrá lugar en un tiempo en el que por circunstancias favorables escape a la persecución, hasta que consiga la fuerza necesaria para resistir todos los intentos ulteriores para suprimirla.

Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard.

Avrupa'da diktatörlerin güç kullan?p zorlayarak yapmaya çal??t?klar?n? eÄŸitim yoluyla baÅŸarmak.

Workers who complained or died were turned into zombies, so labor unrest was never a problem.

With the film V for Vendetta, whose imagery borrows heavily from Nazi Germany's Third Reich and George Orwell's 1984, we come full circle. The corporate state in Vconducts mass surveillance on its citizens, helped along by closed-circuit televisions. Also, London is under yellow-coded curfew alerts, similar to the American government's color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.

For a good long while, I ignored His command. Then I learned the hard way that the Lord will not be avoided, controlled, or silenced. Not ever and certainly not in such a season as now. The more I ran from the idea, the more it forced its way into my head until it began to dominate my mind. Like Jonah, I continued to run. I begged the Lord for some other calling, a different task.

But now the rest of the adjoining cotters rose in a body, and insisted on turning me out. Is it not strange, Sir, that this most horrible of all pestilences should deprive others, not only of natural feeling, but of reason? I could make no resistance although they had flung me over the dunghill, as they threatened to do; but the two women acted with great decision, and dared them to touch me or any one in their house.

The barbarian waits, and we grow weaker in the security of our ease and pleasure.

That was on a Tuesday, and for the next two days the manuscript lay untouched on his desk. For reasons that he did not fully understand, he could not bring himself to open the folder, to begin the reading which a few months before would have been a duty of pleasure. He watched it warily, as if it were an enemy that was trying to entice him again into a war that he had renounced.

You can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham

La vida, en todas sus manifestaciones, es conflicto

Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that.

Mental illness is primarily an unconscious escape from this design, a form of passive resistance.