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Quotes About Resistance

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music
~ Bob Marley
The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
~ Bob Marley
Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
~ Bob Marley
Julia dealt with rules the way she later dealt with vegetarians; she pretended they didn't exist.
~ Bob Spitz
Depending on how high I heaped the stones, each wheelbarrow weighed between 175 and 250 pounds. Once I managed to set it in motion, it was loath to stop without banging me up in some fashion, especially during the thrilling plunge down the backyard hill, when I switched roles from cart pusher to dragging victim.
~ Bob Tarte
Inside me there's a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.
~ Bob Thaves
I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
Some people after taking my lessons they go back yard and sort their issues, but instead of thanking me they rather start a war against me -Bobi Wine
~ Bobi Wine
Tam jede naÅ¡e nadÄ›je. NaÅ¡e mládež. Bojovat za Svobodnou Evropu. A co vy tady? Tisknete razítka na zadek telegrafistky!
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Dad almost delighted at how the graves had resisted, how they had had to bring caterpillar tractors, how the chains had burst, but in the end they had succeeded, they had to succeed in tearing those old times out of the ground...
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Cz?owiek jest jak ?ma: na o?lep rwie si? do ognia, cho? go boli i cho? si? w nim spali. Robi to jednak dopóty – doda? po namy?le – dopóki nie oprzytomnieje. I tym ró?ni si? od ?my...
~ Boles?aw Prus
We watches de white man, and we keeps watching de white man till we finds out which way de white man's gwine to vote; an when we finds out which way de white man's gwine to vote, den we vote xactly de other way. Den we know we's right.
~ Booker T. Washington
We are the Borg lower your shields and surrender your weapons!
~ Borg
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
~ Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
In v resnici je poleg ljubezni, ki je nedvomno prva, plemeniti upor proti krivi?ni stvarnosti najve?, kar lahko prispevamo za rešitev ?loveškega dostojanstva
~ Boris Pahor
Paitsi rakkaus, joka epäilemättä kuuluu ensimmäiselle sijalle, myös jalo kapina epäoikeudenmukaista todellisuutta vastaan on sittenkin suurin asia, jonka avulla ihmisarvon pelastamista voidaan edistää
~ Boris Pahor
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied peril appalls from its presenting nothing to be resisted. Thus, a panic is, usually, a sudden going over to the enemy of our imagination. All is then lost, for we have not only to fight against that enemy, but our imagination as well.
~ bovee christian nestell iii
Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life—to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.
~ Boyd K. Packer
It is not likely that you will ever have a personal encounter with the adversary; he does not show himself that way. But even if he came personally to you to test and tempt you, you have an advantage. You can assert your agency, and he will have to leave you alone.
~ Boyd K. Packer
Why let them order you about? Why let them tell you to hurry and scurry like ants or maggots? Take your time! Saunter a while! Enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the breeze, let life carry you at your own pace! Don't be slaves of time, it's a helluva way to die, slowly, by degrees...down with the Ticktockman!
~ Harlan Ellison
Repent, Harlequin, said the Ticktock Man. Get stuffed, the Harlequin replied.
~ Harlan Ellison
the machine masturbated and we had to take it or die.
~ Harlan Ellison
He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deckplates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him.
~ Harlan Ellison
Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
~ Harold Bloom