Quotes About Resistance

Indians paid, in other words, for the privilege of being conquered by the British.

It was not just the maharajas who had to suffer: every Indian schoolchild must lament the influence of the British dress code on Indians—especially the tie as a permanent noose around the necks of millions of schoolchildren, in India's sweltering heat, even today.

Writing and painting are modes of performance. We begin in stillness and make contact with what moves through us at the moment. If there is a resistance to expression, we acknowledge its presence and try to accept its place in our life at that moment. Relaxing with the resistance helps to release its negative hold on expression.

Since they believed that this revolutionary transformation was in the long-term interests of the people, they were willing to force it through, even when, as with collectivization, a majority of the relevant population clearly opposed it. They explained popular resistance as a result of the backwardness, prejudices, and fears of the unenlightened masses.

How could I castrate my mind--neuter it!--and build up a resistance to know what was mine from what was everyone else's, and finally be in the world in my own way? That endless capacity for empathy--which you have to really kill in order to act freely, to know your own desires!

When women and girls experienced throughout life such systematic sexual aggression from men it was realistic and reasonable for women to be resistant to and suspicious of male sexuality. The focus moved away from women as the problem to a critique of male sexual behaviour and an analysis of the ways in which men's sexual violence sustained their power.

Billy has to fight for peace. It's going to take a lot of courage to stand up against this war. Maybe peace is just as brave" -Reenie Kelly

I used to be influenced by peer pressure, but my friends talked me out of it.

She couldn't get past him. After another minute, she screamed, "You'll never take me alive! I'll never let you get me to a secondary location!

Gwen was fighting really hard not to get caught up in Blayne's excitement. She'd done it before, gotten caught up. And that way laid madness…and jail time.

Sissy could walk home while you drive me and the groceries back." "Or," Sissy countered, "I could gut you here and let your rotting corpse attract the hyenas while we go home and enjoy a nice, quiet meal at my parents' house." Mitch thought about that a moment but finally shook his head. "That doesn't really work for me.

Can I come ? " Blayne asked. "No you'll wander the aisles and want to buy things that aren't needed for this process. But I will pick you up a couple of those giant butterfingers that they sell at the cash register." Blayne grinned "Okay !

Well, you can take your cellar of death where you keep all the bodies of the women you've slaughtered over the years and go to hell. Because this target, which you probably refer to as *it' in your head to keep me as merely an object, is not going down without a fight!

I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

History tells you if dictators are not stopped in time, they cause more damage.

I can't sit back and swallow stuff. I live in a time and place, and in a country on earth where you're not supposed to swallow it. People just gave up.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

In fact I didn't think about fear much at the time. I felt angry about everything that was happening around me: the violence of the dictatorship and the violence of society.

I resisted being an actor for some time.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.