Quotes About Resistance

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

You will not drown the truth in seas of blood

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

Try as we do to resist what we're given, this is the only doorway to truth. We waste too much time and energy denying or fighting where we find ourselves.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Truth is dissent, where all power resides in the Big Lie.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active.