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Quotes About Resistance

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
~ Harry Seidler
The Japanese people, though largely united in recognizing the threat of global warming and rising sea levels, are likely to face hurdles in reforming their energy policy, including some resistance from young people who say the nation faces more pressing problems, like the economy.
~ Tatiana Schlossberg
I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.
~ Theo Van Gogh
Warner Bros. never really got behind the solo work. They always kind of drew a blank. I think they always were thinking, 'Well, this is nice, but let's get back to what's really important.'
~ Lindsey Buckingham
I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.
~ Jung Chang
The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your iPhone, no matter how swarmy, corrupt, or dangerous you are, is supposedly safe. That's also the proposition of Panamanian banking laws.
~ Michael Wolff
For me, defeating Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts is driving a bigger blow to these institutions of power right in the belly of the beast.
~ Shiva Ayyadurai
I had to fight with myself not to hurt people, some serious mental wars.
~ Kimbo Slice
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
~ Cynthia McKinney
The Europeans and Americans have said the martyrdom operations are why Hamas has been put on the terrorist list. But now these operations have stopped. Did they then remove Hamas from the list of terrorist organisations? We do not launch wars. We are people resisting occupation.
~ Ismail Haniyeh
Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.
~ Matt Taibbi
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
~ John le Carre
When people are wary about fighting on the ground, I have a more difficult time.
~ Frank Mir
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
The Ninysh might have resisted a bit harder. I don't mean to imply that they were cowards...," Maurizio said shrugging, clearly implying that the Ninysh were cowards.
~ Rachel Hartman
I hate this plan!" the surveyor was shouting. "The road was perfectly straight. This is a pimple in the face of my road!" "Get out your equipment and mark us a perfect semicircle," said Arnando, cool as morning dew. "Make the best of it, you geometrical tyrant.
~ Rachel Hartman
Jason struck out the first, second, and third batters. "Do not go talk to him," Bird said. "No problem." "Don't even look at him," she said. "Now, that I can't do. He's so cute.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
If you knew how hard I found it to stay on my side of the hall last night after we finished watching the movie…" He shook his head. "Your parents absolutely wouldn't approve of the direction that my thoughts are going.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
And I thought, of all the girls in this town, she is the one that I absolutely can't find fascinating." "Is that the reason you sounded like you really didn't want to take me home after that first night of pizza?" "Yep. I wanted to limit contact. I was trying so hard not to fall for you." "Well, that's why I knocked you over," I said. He laughed.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
T]ime is more purely hers if she squanders it and keeps it empty, holds it, feels it pass by, and resists filling it with anything that might put some too-useful dent in its open, airy emptiness.
~ Rachel Kushner
Certain women in jail and prison make rules for everyone else, and the woman insisting on quiet was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
~ Rachel Kushner
The rest of us lined up for debugging and muumuus.
~ Rachel Kushner
was one of those. If you follow their rules, they make more rules. You have to fight people or you end up with nothing.
~ Rachel Kushner
When the police came to San Lorenzo they were fired upon by children and grandmothers with rocks, buckets of water, rotten eggs. There was more of the proletarian shopping, as it was called, that I'd seen on the Via del Corso. Jeans for the people. Cheese and bread and wine for the people. Umbrellas for the people, because rain fell and fell that week.
~ Rachel Kushner