Quotes About Resistance

If you wait instead until what you are refusing to investigate comes a-knocking at your door, things will certainly not go so well for you. What you least want will inevitably happen—and when you are least prepared. What you least want to encounter will make itself manifest when you are weakest and it is strongest. And you will be defeated.

you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited.

If they fine me, I won't pay it. If they put me in jail, I'll go on a hunger strike. I'm not doing this. That's that. I am not using the words other people require me to use especially if they are made up by radical left-wing ideologues.

Tyranny grows slowly, and asks us to retreat in comparatively tiny steps. But each retreat increases the possibility of the next retreat. Each betrayal of conscience, each act of silence (despite the resentment we feel when silenced), and each rationalization weakens resistance and increases the probability of the next restrictive move forward.

If you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited. The forces of tyranny expand inexorably to fill the space made available for their existence.

I have seen people define their utopia and then bend their lives into knots trying to make it reality. A left-leaning student adopts a trendy, anti-authority stance and spends the next twenty years working resentfully to topple the windmills of his imagination.

If you say no, early in the cycle of oppression, and you mean what you say (which means you state your refusal in no uncertain terms and stand behind it), then the scope for oppression on the part of the oppressor will remain properly bounded and limited.

You see, at the end of the day, objections are merely smoke screens for uncertainty for one or all of the Three Tens.

The perfect quote sprang to mind, but I resisted saying it under my breath, since Jonathan would hear. I couldn't even mouth the words, since for all I knew, he'd hear my lips moving. So I conjured up a vision of the Tin Man and let him say it for me in my head. "Now I know I've got a heart. I can feel it breaking.

I didn't argue. I don't do confrontation any better than I do basements, or shots of Jägermeister.

If you dance with the devil, the devil don't change, he changes you.

No te quiero, no te quiero, pero puedes persuadirme.

Los dos atrapados en medio de ninguna parte. Los dos sintiéndose residuos de un mundo en aras de desaparecer. Ni la vieja policía ni los viejos periodistas tenían cabida en lo que se avecinaba. El fascismo era control. Absoluto.

En momentos así, de sosiego y reflexión, se sorprendía de la calma y serenidad de la gente, que aceptaba lo que ya era evidente: la instauración de la dictadura. Diez años eran diez años. Poco o mucho, según la perspectiva. Poco para olvidar. Mucho para pensar en la lucha. Ninguna resistencia es eterna. Las

Assim é o mundo, povoado de céticos e negativistas, amarrados, como bois na canga, à ordem e à lei, aos procedimentos habituais, ao papel selado.

No meio da confusão Ouviu-se Quincas dizer: "Me enterro como entender Na hora que resolver. Podem guardar seu caixão Pra melhor ocasião. Não vou deixar me prender Em cova rasa no chão." E foi impossível saber O resto de sua oração.

Dona Flor via o torso forte do esposo sob o pijama, as largas omoplatas, o cangote rijo, os músculos do braço. Mordendo os lábios, tratou de desviar o pensamento, pois sendo segunda-feira não era dia dessas coisas. Sistemático, o doutor mantinha nisso e em tudo a mais perfeita ordem.

As portas do inferno se abriram e o anjo revel transpôs a entrada do quarto de dormir (e amar) de dona Flor, aceso o olhar em frete, a boca num convite e todo inteiro nu. Se nem uma santa resistiu a esse olhar, ao apelo desse riso, a esse peito aberto, como poderá fazê-lo dona Flor?

Companheiros, chegou a hora... Companheiros, vamos pra luta...

Le démon ne peut rien sur la volonté, très peu sur l'intelligence et tout sur l'imagination.

Pero qué no ves que toda vida, toda creación en el campo que sea, todo acto de amor, no es más que una rebeldía frente a la extinción, no importa que sea falsa o verdadera, que dé resultados o no?

Seule l'oppression devrait craindre l'expression complète de la liberté.

The natural cloud of dust that must rise when our terrible casing of chains falls to the ground.

Cuando hay muchos hombres sin decoro, hay siempre otros que tienen en sí el decoro de muchos hombres. Esos son los que se rebelan con fuerza terrible contra los que les roban a los pueblos su libertad, que es robarles a los hombres su decoro. En esos hombres van miles de hombres, va un pueblo entero, va la dignidad humana.