Quotes About Resistance

Tony Montana You think you can take me You need a f***ing army if you gonna take me

Such practices were the way to "get along," the way to belong, the way to move up in society, and the way to be "in" for that culture and time. It required daily exercise in resistance not to go along.

No wonder the rulers of this age want to stop the singing, or pollute it with ideology and managed slogans!

Martin Luther King Jr., closing down one of his sermons in the early days in Montgomery, speaks of what it means to be a witness: Honesty impels me to admit that transformed nonconformity, which is always costly and never altogether comfortable, may mean walking through the valley of the shadow of suffering, losing a job, or having a six-year-old daughter ask, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?

Jesus often wetted his finger to find the direction of the acceptable winds, and instead of going with them, headed straight against them.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

It's natural for people to protect what they know instead of leaping into the unknown, and managers are no exception. Managers might even be worse, as the politics they rely on to survive can make them more entrenched and defensive.

And the more you do to force it in, the less of what you wanted to acquire in the first place remains. The vast majority of acquisitions fail for this reason.

Initially, only the crabs demurred. "It's not hot in here," Sarin said acidly. "Nothing has changed. You're all imagining things.

What the hell war isn't unpopular?

Stressed out with the new version and the resistance of the world fears that it is continuing, don't

It always requires more strength to make someone free than it does to keep that person in bondage.

We may need to ready ourselves to repel boarders." "With what? One stiletto and hurtful insinuations about their mothers?

You want a lesson, boy? If you find yourself being born, climb back in as quick as you can, because life's a bottomless feast of shit.

When someone like you pushes the world, the world pushes back. Other people are likely to get hurt. Am I clear?

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

When evil comes, you can't always talk to it—sometimes it must be destroyed.

Tally smiled. At least she was causing trouble to the end. "I'm Tally Youngblood," she said. "make me pretty.

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. "Never, Lord!" he said. "This shall never happen to you!" (Matt. 16:22 NIV)

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

A populace that is chloroformed day and night by TV stations like Fox News could do with inoculation by poetry. Obviously, poetry can't be administered like an injection, but it does constitute a boost to the capacity for discrimination and resistance.

He knows he can trample down you Danes to his heart's content, humiliate and murder without fear of reprisal. But he will find me different. I will show him how Geats shape to kill in the heat of battle.