Quotes About Resistance

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

At the moment of greatest love, there is greatest fear, and at the moment of enormous repression, there is resistance, and therefore a chance at revolutionary change.

The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

Every second, every hour, and every day we can stop radical Democrat policies, Republicans should do it.

300 was the biggest hurdle. They tried to hold us against our will.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.

I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

The established politicians, who before the war preached national pride and Christian love, were the first to collaborate with the Germans. But the communists, who as children we'd been taught to fear, kept a resistance movement alive, living and dying true to their ideals.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

The resistance to science is idiotic.

I'm not afraid of you, 'American Idol.'

'Push back' is the word; that's what we gotta do against ignorance. I see so much of it, and it's dangerous.

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

How do we form a coalition of resistance without obliterating our differences? Not all lives matter, and we are not all the same immigrants.

We will not lift a single finger or spend a single cent to be a cog in the Trump deportation machine, and we won't be complicit in his effort to make American great again by reengineering the legal immigration system.

I love people that, in the face of falling off a cliff, still want to fight about something that happened five minutes ago, going, 'Now, you know I'm right about that,' even though they're facing imminent doom.

I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom.

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.