Quotes About Resistance

From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

They take the circuits out of people's brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell depicted in his novel. I'm sure you realize that there are plenty of people who are looking for exactly that kind of brain death. It makes life a lot easier. You don't have to think about difficult things, just shut up and do what your superiors tell you to do.

A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its own self-contained cycle. And once it passes a certain point, no one can stop it-even if the person himself wants to stop it.

Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But with today's sophistication, who's in a position to throw rocks? Who's going to brave what tear gas? C'mon, that's the way it is. Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it'll come right back at you.

The leaders use their power to crush people's natural desire to think for themselves. It's foot binding for the brain.

Lumea nu este decat o lupta nesfarsita intre amintirile unor tabere opuse.

Because major change requires people across an entire organization to adapt, you as a leader need to resist the reflex reaction of providing people with the answers. Instead, force yourself to transfer, as Roosevelt did, much of the work and problem solving to others. If you don't, real and sustainable change won't occur. In addition, it's risky on a personal level to continue to hold on to the work that should be done by others.

Without short-term wins, too many people give up or actively join the ranks of those people who have been resisting change.

She had taken her vows and then they had taken her, and the forces amassed against her were greater than love, greater than obligation. They were elemental, heavy as a dead planet.

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist

Board games were invented to keep people from thinking so they won't plan a revolution.

He didn't want to read the newspaper or listen to the radio anymore. He didn't want to be a grown-up. There are some people who are just no good at it.

She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate.

We are all essentially only in wars against ourselves, but we don't like it to be so painfully obvious.

A few of the villagers began to stone us and our children.

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

Kalau orang sudah mulai membakar buku-buku, akhirnya mereka akan membakar manusia.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.

Onde se queimam livros, acaba-se queimando pessoas

Acolo unde c?rÈ›ile sunt arse, pân? la urm? vor fi arÈ™i È™i oameni.

There, where one burns books, on in the end burns men.

Wer Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt auch Menschen