Quotes About Resistance

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

If you want to change things in the USA it's best not to spend all your time writing but to take action against the ol' sea of troubles.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

I'm finding it hard to listen to other rock bands. It's been hard for me for a long time, but now I can't listen to any new bands at all.

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it

to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

I said, Don't do nothing of the kind; it's one of the most jackass ideas I ever struck;

Well, I know. It's jam—that's what it is. Forty times I've said if you didn't let that jam alone I'd skin you. Hand me that switch.

It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck.

I don't know. I don't want to sell him. All right. It's a mighty small tick, anyway.

No you can't." "I can." "You can't." "Can!" "Can't!" An uncomfortable pause. Then Tom said: "What's your name?" "'Tisn't any of your business, maybe." "Well I 'low I'll MAKE it my business." "Well why don't you?" "If you say much, I will." "Much—much—MUCH. There now.

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution- these can lift at a colossal humbug- push it a little - weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Il coraggio è resistenza alla paura e dominio della paura, ma non assenza di paura.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

no people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood, whatever may answer afterward. If