Quotes About Resistance

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

Every man is his own chief enemy.

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

If anybody tells me to stop eating chocolates or pizzas, I won't be able to do it.

It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.

I love making music, but I also love making music that's on the radio. In some circles, that is considered less artistic. And I've always tried to resist those people that say the two can't exist at the same time.

It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.

I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.

When I used to fight against the corrupt system, my wife ran the house and my mother supported me.

We need to mobilise our structures and our supporters to oppose state capture and corruption in whatever form it takes.

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

I stand up for what is right even if it puts me in a political conundrum. Supporting Senator Sanders was one of those moments when the status quo said 'Uh uh, bad girl.'

I feel incredibly passionate about 'Bunheads,' but the network was not supportive of the show, and you have to have that.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips. It was a real black-and-white opposite of what was considered attractive. I was kicking against something I found really oppressive.

When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.

We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.