Quotes About Resistance

Ho cercato di fermare gli eventi, ma ormai mi fanno troppa paura. Senti questo silenzio? Ebbene, c'è una tempesta in ogni camera. Il giorno che scoppieranno, saremo tutte travolte.

Tu n'obtiendras rien de la contrainte. Tu pourras à la rigueur les contraindre à l'immobilité et au silence et, ce résultat durement acquis, tu seras bien avancé. (p. 13)

Si tu joues au policier, ils joueront aux bandits. Si tu joues au bond Dieu, ils joueront aux diables. Si tu joues au geôlier, ils joueront aux prisonniers. Si tu es toi-même, ils seront bien embêtés. (p. 16)

La realidad es lo que nos ofrece resistencia, incluido nuestro propio cuerpo. Nuestro cuerpo es real, demasiado real, y por eso nos da tantos problemas, porque no se ajusta a nuestros deseos, no está sano a voluntad, no se cura cuando queremos.

El idioma está tan indefenso como los animales. Todos los atropellan con impunidad. Y esas dos causas perdidas son las que he tomado como mías, por el gusto de perder.

Inútil todo intento de orden ante tan decidida vocación de caos. Y

Instalar un fusiladero [...]. Y que vayan cayendo los fumigados y aterrizando sobre ellos los gallinazos.

At least the Nazis could have been, in Churchill's great and galvanic rhetoric, fought on the beaches, hills, fields and streets. They offered the 'chance to fight back'. The new German invasion, cloaked in the guise of peaceful co-operation, is more damnable because it does not give the English Resistance a proper physical target.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Two things struck me about this strange group over which Tito presided with a kind of amused benevolence; first their complete devotion to the Old Man, as they called him, and secondly the fact that all of them... had been with him in the woods from the early days of the resistance, sharing with him hardships and dangers, setbacks and successes. This common experience had overcome all differences of class or race or temperament and forged between them lasting bonds of loyalty and affection.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him. If he runs away from it, it will run after him.

For the Hearing My ears are God's ears, I hear with the ears of spirit. I am nonresistant and am willing to be led. I hear glad tidings of great joy.

put this situation in the hands of Infinite Love and Wisdom; if this trip is the Divine plan, I bless it and not longer resist, but if it is not divinely planned, I give thanks that it is now dissolved and dissipated.

What if I say I'm not like the others What if I say I'm not just another one of your plays You're the pretender What if I say I will never surrender

But if men are, on the one hand, irresistibly impelled towards what is for their profit, and if, on the other, they resist instinctively what is hurtful, we are forced to conclude that each nation carries in its bosom a natural force of expansion, and a not less natural force of resistance, which forces are equally injurious to all other nations; or, in other words, that antagonism and war are the natural state of human society.

car chacun, ici comme ailleurs, naît avec sa loi propre ; ici comme ailleurs, chaque destinée est particulière et pourtant il faut se soumettre à ce morne destin commun ; quelques-uns résistent : d'où ces drames sur lesquels les familles font silence. Etre soi-même ? répétai-je, mais nous ne le sommes que dans la mesure où nous nous créons.

Evolution is a tinkerer, not an engineer. It works with what is already there and takes the path of least resistance. It is not always the most efficient solution, but it is the dumbest solution that works

Go hang yourselves [critics]… you shall never want rope enough.

The burning of Joan was an attempt to deaden a great deal more than a young woman with pretensions of prophesy. It was also an attempt to eradicate the nascent possibility of agency in a woman, of a possible weakness in the dominant discourse, requiring constant vigilance and cleansing, lest it be uncovered.

Make me a grave where'er you will, In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill; Make it among earth's humblest graves, But not in a land where men are slaves. […] I ask no monument, proud and high, To arrest the gaze of the passers-by; All that my yearning spirit craves, Is bury me not in a land of slaves.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

Choose a lie that others wish to believe" was written beneath it. "They will cling to it, even if it is proven false before their face. If anyone tries to show them the Truth, they will turn on them and fight them tooth and nail.