Quotes About Resistance

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

There is no need to give in to the compromise that totalitarian regimes always count on.

Right now, the machine keeps us totally busy. If you don't react against it, you'll end up letting yourself go and become the perfect consumer. That's what they want.

If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

A few hundhred scrawls o' chaps with a couple o' guns and Rosary beads, again' a hundhred thousand thrained men with horse, fut an' artillery… an' he wants us to fight fair!

Resistance has a fatal weakness, though. We can turn the tables on it. It can be defeated.

every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers.

In a heartfelt speech to Parliament in 1763, William Pitt declared: "The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England may not enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." Sir

This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back the papers of their soles.

You have to try to shore up the levee when the flood races down. Even with your bare hands.

tentación: la de rendirse de una vez por todas y entregarse a sí mismo y al resto del mundo a los designios del demonio con una actitud de indiferencia inerte, rayana en la predisposición; la de cometer un suicidio moral con obstinación y maldad.

En apariencia es una actitud muy heroica: rechazar cualquier tipo de consuelo pasando por alto que es precisamente en esta postura donde reside el consuelo más envenenado, temible y vicioso.

Tell them all to go fuck themselves.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Alarmistii fuseser? dintotdeauna victimele unei represiuni atât de s?lbatice, cât ?i de oculte.

I decided to "find myself" in monumental sculpture. Alas, monumental sculpture is a very conservative genre. The cause is the monumentality itself. You can secretly write novels and symphonies. You can secretly experiment on canvas. But just try to hide a twelve-foot-high sculpture!

By oppression's woes and pains, By your sons in servile chains, We will drain our dearest veins But they shall be free! Robert

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

Qué poca piedad me inspiran los que son incapaces de cambiar de lugar, excepto como turistas, aquellos para los que lo nuevo viene siempre de afuera y siempre como curiosidad o diversión, los que son lo que son a rajatabla, los empeñados en el peñasco, en la tristeza del efecto.

Y cómo puede no resistirse el dolor? Eso es lo que hacemos todos.

La persona que se resiste no cambia, no se transforma. Si

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.

Try telling a starving vampire to control himself when there's warm blood on his lips. You'd have as much luck telling a burning man not to scream.