Quotes About Resistance

A pattern has developed under the Maduro regime. When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute. I know this because buckshot pellets fired by members of the armed forces - at peaceful protesters in 2017 - remain lodged in my own body. A minor price to pay compared to the sacrifices made by some of my compatriots.

During the 35 years of Left regime, there was no independence. We were left at the hands of torturers.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.

Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.

A great deal of my energy is directed toward battling the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department.

Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in his own way. And in a way, it's sort of what I did when I was in the Army. I just oftentimes did what I wanted to do.

Let the whole world hear that we reject America. No, no to the occupier.

Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

There have always been difficult situations for activists in Pakistan. In the 1960s, people fought for linguistic and ethnic rights in relation to the Bangladesh movement and the struggle of the people in the western Balochistan province.

I stopped caring about industry rules after my 'Shoebite' did not release.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

This gun is liberty; hold for certain that the day when you no more have it, you will be returned to slavery.

The only way we protect ourselves, the only way a player gets what he wants is by holding out.

You can't hit someone if they're holding on to you.

I was hopeless with the Internet, I didn't even like it either. As I said before, I thought 'what an annoying thing' you know, it's doing all these terrible things.

I compared pooh-poohers of the movies to the myopics who used to holler, 'Get a horse!' when an early automobile exploded by.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

I seethe at the humiliation of airport security checks.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.