Quotes About Resistance

El amor, madre, a la patria no es el amor ridículo a la tierra, ni a la yerba que pisan nuestras plantas; Es el odio invencible a quien la oprime, es el rencor eterno a quien la ataca

The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.

La ley es tela de araña, en mi inorancia lo esplico: No la tema el hombre rico; nunca la tema el que mande; pues la ruempe el bicho grande y sólo enrieda a los chicos.

El mediocre no inventa nada, no crea, no empuja, no rompe, no engendra; pero, en cambio, custodia celosamente la armazón de automatismos, prejuicios y dogmas acumulados durante siglos, defendiendo ese capital común contra la asechanza de los inadaptables.

La falta de personalidad hace, a éstos, incapaces de iniciativa y de resistencia.

Sólo lo difícil es estimulante; sólo la resistencia que nos reta, es capaz de enarcar, suscitar y mantener nuestra potencia de conocimiento

Nur das Schwierige ist anregend, nur der Widerstand der uns herausfordert, kann unser Erkenntnisvermögen geschmeidig krümmen, es wecken und in Gang halten

I have lived in the monster [the United States] and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

When a people is denied light, home, freedom, justice, all the good things without which life is not possible, and which constitute man's patrimony, a person has the right to deal with the people who despoil him, like a thief who assaults us in the roadway. No qualifications, no exceptions.

He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He felt very alone, on an interminable day full of evil omens, and the story, though resistant to some of his intentions, was at least a testimony to reality and coherence

Ang sagot sa dahas ay dahas, kapag bingi sa katuwiran.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Cato Would Lucius have me live to swell the number Of Caesar's slaves, or by a base submission 30 Give up the cause of Rome, and own a tyrant?

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality—countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.

The savage cuts down the tree to gather its fruit, he unharnesses the ox that missionaries have just given him, and cooks it with the wood of the plough. He has known us for three centuries without having wanted anything from us, except gunpowder to kill his fellows and brandy to kill himself.

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

Getting money out of some people was harder than getting blood from a stone.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. —ÉMILE ZOLA

You said electronic lock. I didn't know it was a TL-30X6." "I don't like your tone, Merlin. You sound very pessimistic. Maybe even defeatist." "Heller, listen to me. I brought my StrongArm safe cracker diamond-core drill bits, okay? But drilling through one of these, that's a five-hour job at least. That mother's made from inch-and-a-half-thick steel and cobalt-carbide matrix hardplate, okay?" "If you say so.

Wi?c powsta? narodzie, i niech rozp?ta si? burza!(Nun, Volk, steh auf, und Sturm, brich los!)

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not butter

Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the pig answered: "No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin." The wolf then answered to that: "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in." So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.

Un immonde vieillard essayait de suborner le pays. "Soyez sages, soyez lâches, enseignait-il. Oubliez que vous avez été fiers, joyeux et libres. Obéissez et souriez au vainqueur. Il vous laissera vivoter tranquilles.

Tu comprends, ils sont venus dans leurs chars, avec leurs yeux vides. Ils pensaient que les chenilles des chars sont faites pour tracer la nouvelle loi des peuples. (...) La France est tellement civilisée, tellement amollie, pensaient-ils, qu'elle a perdu le sens du combat souterrain et de la mort secrète. Elle acceptera, elle s'endormira. Et dans son sommeil nous lui ferons des yeux vides.