Quotes About Resistance

Think about your immune system as being an army, and it's fighting infection.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

I've always been proud that I come from people who were activists, who have this indomitable spirit. I am proud to have inherited the spirit of resistance and revolution.

Initially, I resisted going into acting. You want to have your own identity, and I thought about doing other things, but that didn't last very long.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I - I might want to march out on that.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.