Quotes About Resistance

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

You must consider that there is opposition from other human beings and also non-physical forces that don't want you to succeed.

Against ignorance there is no front line. Against viciousness no border can hold. It breeds as readily behind your back as elsewhere.

Life was a war against a thousand enemies, from the sustenance carved from nature to the insanity of a people's will to do wrong in the name of right.

At some point, no matter how repressive the regime, the citizenry will come to comprehend the vast power in their hands. The destitute, the Indebted, the beleaguered middle classes; in short, the myriad victims. Control was sleight of hand trickery, and against a hundred thousand defiant citizens, it stood no real chance.

They take us at this moment, these unwavering men and women who presume to rule over us, and but point us in the direction of a weaker victim. This is their game, knowing or not, and as ever the assumption is that we'll never turn on our masters – so long as an enemy remains within reach of our blunted, frustrated fury. And

You don't destroy an omen by fighting it. No, you do the opposite. You swallow it whole.

What makes me worse than any other corpse?' 'Other corpses don't fight back, for one thing.' The undead woman came closer. 'Why would I feel compelled to resist? Is she not simply making me pretty?' 'Of course. I was just making conversation. And how have you been, Shurq Elalle?' 'The same.' 'The same. Which is?' 'I've been better. Still, many would call consistency a virtue.

You weren't punished for not doing what you were told. (...) They hurt you because they could, because there was no-one there who was capable of stopping them.

To the executioner's axe there are those who kneel, head bowed, and await their fate. Then there are those who fight, who strain, who cry out their defiance even as the blade descends

La vague de Tenescowris, masse humaine devenue folle de faim, se fracassa inexorablement contre les murailles de la ville, puis les submergea. Les barricades élevées à l'emplacement des portes, ployant sous la pression, finirent par céder.

The Letherii well knew that resistance to tyranny was nurtured in schools of faith, espoused by old, bitter priests and priestesses, by elders whole would work through the foolish young – use them like weapons, flung away when broken, melodramatically mourned when destroyed. Priests and priestesses whose version of faith justified the abuse of their own followers.

Corruption and incompetence. These were rebellion's sparks.

No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.

There are those here who believe they are right simply because they oppose something that is evil.

The men on the hills told her that she hated them, and they did everything they could to make it true. She did not fight very hard. It was an easy thing to do. She wonders whether it would have been possible to behave any differently. She hopes it is. She hopes that, somewhere in the city, there are people who are resisting the temptation to turn these men into devils, to say that all men are like them, to oppose their very existence the way they always said the people of Sarajevo did.

At a 1937 conference of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, Stalin's people applauded him for eleven consecutive minutes, fearing that the first to stop would be killed or sent to prison. Finally, one man stopped, the director of a paper factory. "To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down," writes Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. That same night the director of the paper factory was arrested and sent to prison for ten years.

the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.

The law and will of the devil is written as well in our hearts as in our members, and we run headlong after the devil with full zeal, and the whole swing of all the power we have; as a stone cast up into the air comes down naturally of his own self, with all the violence and swing of his own weight.15

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or to write its epitaph.