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Quotes About Resistance

You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.
~ St. Lucia
Fundamentalists have their heads in the sand.
~ Anita Bryant
It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
~ Gloria Steinem
We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
~ John Howard
People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate.
~ Matt Berninger
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
~ Billy Bragg
Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
~ Fidel Castro
There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.
~ Pink
Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
~ Billy Childish
Whether you are Hillary Clinton or any other lefty out there, you better beware because Trey Gowdy is out there, and he is going to get you.
~ Chuck Fleischmann
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.
~ George Lucas
In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples Ã¢â'¬Â¦ From the First Saga Journal of the Whills
~ George Lucas
Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.
~ George Lucas
To love righteousness is to make it grow, not to avenge it. Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.
~ George MacDonald
There is endless room for rebellion against ourselves.
~ George MacDonald
A devil - A power that lives against its life
~ George MacDonald
One of four gates stands open to us: to deny the existence of God, and say we can do without him; to acknowledge his existence, but say he is not good, and act as true men resisting a tyrant; to say, I would there were a God, and be miserable because there is none; or to say there must be a God, and he must be perfect in goodness or he could not be, and give ourselves up to him heart and soul and hands and history.
~ George MacDonald
They scorched the earth, destroyed their own homes and fields, took to the hills and the wilderness with their beasts and all they could move, and carried on the struggle by onfall, ambush, cutting supply lines, and constant harrying.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.
~ George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
~ George Orwell
April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!
~ George Orwell