Quotes About Resistance

Now—either you all give yourselves up now and let us beat you up a bit, though not very much of course because we are firmly opposed to needless violence, or we blow up this entire planet and possibly one or two others we noticed on our way out here!

Come off it, Mr. Dent," he said, "you can't win, you know. You can't lie in front of the bulldozer indefinitely." He tried to make his eyes blaze fiercely but

Look, don't you understand?" shouted Arthur. He pointed at Prosser. "That man wants to knock my house down!" Ford glanced at him, puzzled. "Well, he can do it while you're away, can't he?" he asked. "But I don't want him to!

He could only assume that he had just won. "So," continued Ford Prefect, "if you would just like to come over here and lie down …" "What?" said Mr. Prosser. "Ah, I'm sorry," said Ford, "perhaps I hadn't made myself fully clear. Somebody's got to lie in front of the bulldozers, haven't they? Or there won't be anything to stop them driving into Mr. Dent's house, will there?

First you had to fight the Stones fans, which was tricky because they fought dirty and had their knuckles nearer the ground.

Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the cluds, impossibly huge somethings.

He had no idea what he was in for, but he knew that he hadn't liked anything that had happened so far and didn't think things were likely to change.

No quiero morir todavía! ¡Aún me duele la cabeza, estaré de mal humor y no lo disfrutaré!

They obstinately persisted in their absence

Look," said Arthur, "would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?" For

It hadn't properly registered yet with Arthur that the council wanted to knock it down and build a bypass instead.

Look,' said Arthur, 'would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?

the occasional new ploy such as the For the Public Good talk, or the March of Progress talk, the They Knocked My House Down Once You Know, Never Looked Back talk and various other cajoleries and threats; and it was the bulldozer drivers' accepted role to sit around drinking coffee and experimenting with union regulations to see how they could turn the situation to their financial advantage.

The archbishop of St. Andrews threatened that if Knox preached, he would be shot on sight. Knox preached anyway, from Perth to Fife and beyond. As a result, the summer of 1559 saw an extraordinary revival spread throughout Scotland.59

I'm afraid I don't suffer petty bureaucrats gladly. A very bad habit, but one I find hard to break. Nevertheless, you will find, Dr. Kelly, that humiliation and blackmail, when used judiciously, can be marvelously effective.

Resistance would be futile, and futility itself was, of course, to be resisted.

This genetic resistance, by the way, should not be confused with acquired immunity. Acquired immunity is when a body gets rid of a pathogen and afterward maintains a state of high alert for that same microbe. It's why people don't normally get the same illness twice. Genetic resistance is something deeper and more mysterious. It is not acquired through exposure—you are born with it.

God give me chastity, but not right now.

issued a muffled cry and slashed with the knife, but it rent only

In 1680, the Indians rose up, killed four hundred settlers and dozens of padres, and drove the rest of the Spanish out of New Mexico. This was the Pueblo Revolt.

My country wedged fast in history stuck in the ice

That light of outrage is the light of history

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

What we call ego is simply the mechanism our mind uses to resist life as it is.