Quotes About Resistance

I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads' holidays, all that stuff.

The snake will always bite back.

It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

Everybody around me had a Snapchat, and I said I would never get on it. I'm still on Instagram, you know? They convinced me to get Snapchat.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

So many people are willing to sleepwalk through things and fall into the not human, not interesting choice. To make the really interesting choice, you have to fight.

Angry white men are on the losing side of history, which is poised to roll over them like a demographic steamroller. Theirs is a rearguard action, the circling of wagons, Custer's last stand. In fact, they've already lost.

During the early waves of the women's movement, lesbianism was seen as a political alternative, a decision not to give aid and comfort to the enemy (men). How could a woman be truly feminist, they asked, if she shared her life and bed with a man? (..) "For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture," wrote one woman, "is an act of resistance.

How do you force a man to fight – for freedom? The idiocy of it jarred him.

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite.

there is no escaping from power, that it is always-already present constituting that very thing which one attempts to counter it with.

We have to rise up against all forms of power—but not just power in the narrow sense of the word, referring to the power of a government or of one social group over another: these are only a few particular instances of power. Power is anything that tends to render immobile and untouchable those things that are offered to us as real, as true, as good.

Il punto più intenso delle vite, quello in cui si concentra la loro energia, è proprio là dove si scontrano con il potere, si dibattono con esso, tentano di utilizzare le sue forze o di sfuggire alle sue trappole.

Là où il y a pouvoir, il y a résistance.

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here!

Why will you not just accept what is? You have done as you will in my domain. I have exacted no price for actions that would be the death of any other. Why? I am your enemy here! It does little harm.

I concluded that, unhappily, I'd been born into a world dominated by a rampaging monster called 'law' that was both all-powerful and all-stupid

Fuck you, says Iron Maiden.

All right, you conniving little punks, I'll play ball, but I'm going to make up a lot of rules you never heard of. You think I'm cornered and it'll be a soft touch. Well, you won't be playing with a guy who's a hero. You'll be up against a guy with a mind gone rotten and a lust for killing! That's the way I was and that's the way I like it!