Quotes About Resistance

I learned a long time ago that place matters to me, on many levels, and maybe more than it should, but it is generally counter-productive for me to resist it.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

If the method is able to liberate our land, to liberate our people from Israeli jails, to reconstruct what was destroyed by the long-standing Israeli occupation, at that time we can discuss.

I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

The next time you do a filibuster, keep walking around.

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.

You cannot give your full attention to something, and at the same time resist it.

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds me—I spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

I get up, because I'm supposed to, but if it were up to me, I'd stay in my seat for the rest of time.

Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.