Quotes About Resistance

Ahí donde se queman libros, acabarán quemando personas

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

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

Dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

Wenn Euer Landesherr käme, und spräche, ich will mich, mit dem ganzen Troß derer, die mir das Szepter führen helfen, vernichten – vernichten, versteht ihr, welches allerdings der größteste Wunsch ist, den meine Seele hegt: so würde ihm doch den Zettel noch, der ihm mehr wert ist, als das Dasein, verweigen und sprechen: du kannst mich auf das Schafott bringen, ich aber kann dir weh tun und ich wills!

HARHARBLOODY HAR. Put that in your pipe hole and smoke it, society!

But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.

I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs.

Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

I have done no wrong but the zealots are trying to attack me because I am so critical of them.

I don't shy away from standing up against the president or other people who I think are taking us in the wrong direction.

We need to stand up to Donald Trump and the Republicans, but we also need to stand up against our own party establishment when it's on the wrong side of an issue.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

For the longest time, Cena would be, and still is, filibustered by half the WWE universe.