Quotes About Resistance

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honor in challenging; it was ineptitude—a gray spread of cotton that deemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way.

Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles remain in their minds as floating abstractions, offering them a goal they cannot grasp and demanding that they reshape their souls in its image, thus leaving them with a burden of undefinable moral guilt.

Get the hell out of my way! Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator.

I guess we resist changing, because we're afraid of change.

In short, a change imposed is a change opposed.

In the past, Hem did not like it when someone challenged his beliefs. He resisted changing his mind, and felt offended when anyone suggested that what he was thinking or saying might not be true.

The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.

Ova drustvena revolucija se manifestira kroz vrlo razlicite aspekte, najprije ogromna seljacka buna, siroki bazni pokret koji ima svoje korijene u dugoj historiji, obiljezenoj ne samo mrznjom nego i dubokim zaziranjem seljastva prema gradu, vanjskom svijetu i prema svakom obliku mijesanja u drzavno vlasnistvo.

Kada su zatvori ili prepuni, pobunjenici i štrajka?i bili su odvedeni u ?amce i zatim sa kamenom o vratu, stotine njih bilo je ba?eno u Volgu 12-14.marta bilo je strijeljano ili ugušeno izmedju 200-400. Procjene, nesigurne broja buržoaskih žrtava masakra u Astrakhanu osciliraju izmedju 600 - 1000 osoba. Za 1 sedmicu 3000-5000 bilo je pogubljeno ili ugušeno.

Public meetings, business meetings, encounters on the street, conversations, even posters on the wall all get wrapped up in an official language that doesn't contain a single word of truth. People in the West can't possibly understand what it is really like to lose the right to say what you think for years on end, and the way you have to repress the tiniest illegal thought you might have and stay silent as the tomb. That sort of pressure breaks something inside people.

As his subject Samuel Adams chose: Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the republic cannot otherwise be preserved?

With each effort to suppress the spirit of liberty, Great Britain managed only to promote it.

I will stand alone. I will oppose tyranny at the threshold, though the fabric of liberty fall and I perish in its ruins.

The trader's ideal entry point is after a stock consolidates in a new trading range and pulls back close to the moving average, then breaks out again above resistance.

Initially the 30-week MA loses its downside slope and starts to flatten out. In addition, intermittent rallies and declines will toss the stock above and below the MA. During this stage, there will usually be several swings between support at the bottom of the trading range and resistance at the top of the range. This basing action can go on for months or, in some cases, years.

It's true that even though I'm a world unto myself, I've just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will ever force me to think like a speck of dust!

Ciascuno di noi sa che ogni essere materiale è sottomesso a precise leggi fisiologiche e fisiche, e che nemmeno la forza di tutti i nostri sentimenti può lottare contro queste leggi; possiamo solo odiarle.

Nie lubi? ciem, zw?aszcza gdy siadaj? mi na twarzy, chcia?em j? trzepn??, ale w zasi?gu r?ki by? tylko gruby, twardo oprawiony tom hotelowej Biblii, a Bibli? niezr?cznie jako?.

Solo i pesci morti vanno con la corrente

E lei ora desidera. È uscito del letargo della sua rassegnata solitudine, ha scoperto la fame del suo cuore, sa che la mela è proibita, ma desidera. Non avrà più pace, né dieta. [...] Soffrirà, il suo cuore, lo stomaco e le viscere andranno in subbuglio, il suo istinto di Homo erectus potrà essere temprato, ma non vinto. La mela è caduta dall'albero del destino.

At every point along the passage from African to New World markets, we find a stark contest between slave traders and slaves, between the traders' will to commodify people and the captives' will to remain fully recognizable as human subjects.

It appeared that his sister, usually an irresistible force, had finally met a sufficiently immovable object.

Blake's Seven.

I'm caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.