Quotes About Resistance

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." —EDMUND BURKE

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.... Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

I refuse to kneel before the sights you choose to see.

I'm on the road of least resistance I'd rather give up than give in to this So promise me only one thing, would you? Just don't ever make me promises No promises

Stop yelling at me," Seth demanded. Or what? "Or I'll throw rocks at you.

All who oppose me must be broken!

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

His entire life had been a futile effort to stop a storm by yelling at it. The storm didn't care.

You talk about hunger and pain as if they are forces which can't be resisted. Anything is acceptable, as long as the hunger made you do it-remove our comforts, and we become animals.

Tantrums are a noble and time-tested strategy,she said airily. Particularly if you have a good set of lungs and are facing down a crotchety old priest. I know Stewart; he always bends if you make enough noise.

Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

A river is easier to channel than to stop.

There are . . . times when one must accept the aid of darkness in order to contain a greater darkness.

Yes, there are worse places, but so long as this hellhole is considered the ideal, we'll never get anywhere. We cannot let them convince us this is normal!

Because he knew we'd never rebel on our own, so he gave us no choice.

There was always an excuse for why Kaladin needed the spear again, wasn't there? This was what he'd been afraid of. This was what made him tremble. The worry that he would never be able to put it down.

People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

New tastes are like new ideas, young man - the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

We may not be the ones to kill Steelheart. But even if we fail, we might be the cause of his death. Someday.

There are some things you can't hide from, Vin. I know—I've tried." She

There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.

There is a saying in the Steel Ministry," Yomen finally said. " 'Sit down to dine with evil, and you will ingest it with your meal.