Quotes About Resistance

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay To have tricked temptation and turned it away, But wait, my friend, for a different day; Wait till you want to want to!

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

People want progress, but they don't want change.

As long as I think I 'should' do it, I'll resist it, even if I want very much to do it.

I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction.

America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

When people get tired they will say, "Enough is enough. If you want to kill us all, you can kill us all."

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.

The hardest fight a man has to fight is to live in a world where every single day someone is trying to make you someone you do not want to be--

Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.

I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.

It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

You can bite me if you want. I want you to.

I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.

Why won't you take me, Remington?" He groans and pulls me closer. "Because I want you too much".

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

I want you to know that I fought you fairly. Equal to equal. I could have used my powers against you, but I didn't. (Stryker) Should I warm to oven and bake you a batch of hero-cookies? (Zephyra)

I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.

I didn't want to see you, but you invaded my world. Every dark corner you found a way in bringing light to the lifeless and lost." Eva