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Quotes About Resistance

There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn't believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as an opposition…
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible: if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple.
~ Simon Singh
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
~ Simon Travaglia
It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
~ Simon Travaglia
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I'm losing control."-Brittany Mamacita, I've already lost it."-Alex
~ Simone Elkeles
It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.
~ Simone Elkeles
Alex and Carlos—the tag team from hell. They're the last people I need shit from right now. If they decide to trail me, too, I'll have an entire entourage. "I'm fine." "Then sit up and talk to us." "Okay, in that case I'm not fine. Go away." I moan. "Unless you want me to puke all over you.
~ Simone Elkeles
were you sleeping?" He chuckles. "Not by a long shot. I was just tryin' to convince myself not to make a move on you.
~ Simone Elkeles
I won't have sex with you," she blurts out. He words slam into my libido like a bucket of water on a flame full of testosterone. I think my dick just twitched in protest.
~ Simone Elkeles
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
~ Simone Weil
It Can't Happen Here.
~ Sinclair Lewis
His eyes were narrowed as he spoke, bitten a little with perplexity at the uselessness of being right against the world.
~ Sinclair Ross
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
The Russians dashed on towards that thin redline streak tipped with a line of steel.
~ Sir William Howard Russell
When the foeman bares his steel,Tarantara, tarantara!We uncomfortable feel,Tarantara.
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Although relatively more open to same-sex unions, contemporary American culture nevertheless bristles with a need to categorize human eroticism, a force that by its very nature resists definition and plays a role in most relations between people of either and both sexes, whether it is acted upon or not.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
~ Honore de Balzac
His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.
~ Faraaz Kazi
I love nature but against my better judgment.
~ Werner Herzog
I love the protests. And if you think about it, what better way to send a message to Wall Street than by sitting in a pup tent banging on a drum.
~ David Letterman
Love does not imply pacifism.
~ Derrick Jensen
Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.
~ William Shakespeare
Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore
~ Phil Ochs