Quotes About Resistance

Very, very protesty. And, uh, one of the protestiest of all things I ever protested against in my protest years.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

Oh, the foes will rise With the sleep still in their eyes And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin' But they'll pinch themselves and squeal And know that it's for real The hour when the ship comes in Then they'll raise their hands Sayin' we'll meet all your demands But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered And like Pharaoh's tribe They'll be drownded in the tide And like Goliath, they'll be conquered

I'm listening to Neil Young, I gotta turn up the sound. Someone's always yellin', 'Turn him down'. -- Highlands from Time Out of Mind (1997)

The Deep State was not the problem. It was the up-in-your-face state.

When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.

And the strong are dominated by the weak and the ignoble.

Il poussa la porte. Elle lui rendit brutalement sa poussée et il entra par la vitrine, sans insister.

From ancient to modern times, the human animal knows how to find fighting.

Wherever books are burned, ultimately people are also burned.

Dan beranikanlah dirimu membuktikan kebenaran yang kau benci!

Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly

Our enemy is not merely spiritual.

But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

Che la metamorfosi sia anche alla base della vita degli esseri umani è un'idea fortemente osteggiata dalla confortevole dittatura della post-modernità.

outstretched hand. A sniff revealed it as beer.

And even though he enjoyed being around her, he resisted her, because he was supremely aware that he wasn't the old Robert any longer; he was Bit, a piece of what he'd once been.

Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance—Lakota

you Don't want what I'M ready to dish out

His hand covered my mouth. "Don't. Tell me when, then. And before you say never, take a good look at me and tell me if you see a man who's easily deterred.

I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film premiere, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.

I hated to serve men in any way.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.