Quotes About Resistance

You can smoulder in your own syrup from bow till Doomsday, you'll get nothing more from me.

No. Thank you she said in a voice that said he could go to hell and take his jacket with him.

Vi er treblåsarar, lokka av ting vi ikkje står imot.

Whenever you write on a subject that questions the status quo, there are bound to be many who wrestle with the issues

Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.

Cords of darkness were wrapped around her arms, chest and neck. They didn't retreat as Stephen's had.

At first Welsh just stared, as did Ryan. But when the meaning of what this room might hold for him formed in Welsh's mind, he protested with a wide-eyed grunt.

But he'd resisted them, and the more he did, the harsher their attacks became. During the worst of it, he'd begged for death. Death is too small a price for your sins, they'd whispered. They wanted him alive for the final showdown. For the day Haven Valley was destroyed from within. Jamie didn't understand what it meant, but their haunting words filled him with a deeper fear than he'd ever known.

Condemnation is only trying to fight fear with fear.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

One of Satan's most seductive traps is convincing us that we cannot do what we will not do.

Her voice was a thread, but still she managed to sound acerbic. "I believe it's the devil's job to tempt me. Not yours." "And the difference between the devil and I would be . . . ?" "None that I can detect.

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.

l'esclavage.

The object is that which is objected against me.

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.

La historia es una increíble cantidad de manotazos por todos lados, algunos agarran la manija y otros se quedan con los dedos en el aire, pero cuando sumás el todo por ahí te da la revolución francesa o el Moncada.

Hay que mantener en un obstinado presente, con toda su sangre y su ignominia, algo que ya se está queriendo hacer entrar en el cómodo país del olvido

Valía más renunciar, porque la renuncia a la acción era la protesta misma y no su máscara.

Buena suerte quiero verte y quererte, diablo aléjate.

qué cabeza cortar si siempre quedará otra más autoritaria. (Lucas, sus luchas con la hidra)

Ah, querida Andrée, qué difícil oponerse, aun aceptándolo con entera sumisión del propio ser, al orden minucioso que una mujer instaura en su liviana residencia.

The essential thing is not to let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch. These forces, devoid of connection with any higher principle, are in fact on a short chain.

We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about?