Quotes About Resistance

Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.

I am compliance itself—when I am not thwarted;—no one more easily led—when I have my own way.

We will not go quietly away. If in the future that requires violence

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him sing opera.

First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.

but if there is anything that could be called an intellectual establishment in America, this establishment has been, though not profoundly radical (which would be unbecoming in an establishment), on the left side of center. And it has drawn the continuing and implacable resentment of the right, which has always liked to blur the distinction between the moderate progressive and the revolutionary.

Yet he opposed the introduction

the overwhelming impression I got was that if there was a line of least resistance in life, this face had never been along it.

Do I look like a fucking slave to you?" he asked them. And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.

Do I look like a fucking slave to you? he asked them. And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.

They killed us twenty thousand years ago with their crops and their craven connivance at hierarchy.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. JAMES BALDWIN

You are likely to find yourself avoiding your artist dates. Recognize this resistance as a fear of intimacy—self-intimacy

As blocked creatives, we are willing to go to almost any lengths to remain blocked. As frightening and abusive as life with a crazymaker is, we find it far less threatening than the challenge of a creative life of our own.

we often resist what we most need.

Cómo iban a poder si su propio hábito de beber es algo a lo que quieren aferrarse? «Saber lo que prefieres, en lugar de decir sumisamente "amén" a lo que el mundo te dice que debieras preferir, significa que has mantenido tu alma con vida».

The strong cannot help confronting; the less strong cannot help evading.

yet death has an obstinate way of denying us the solutions we imagine for ourselves.

God damn it, he was thinking, this dying business is difficult. They just won't let you get on with it, not on your own terms, anyway. You have to die on other people's terms, and that's a bore, love them as you might.

But we have to be stronger and braver and cleverer than men are and not give them what they want simply because we find them charming. At which point, contrary creatures that they are, they will find us irresistible.

Get off me. You weigh more than the doors to your home.

It all seemed grossly unfair. He wanted nothing at all to change

Because the only way to resist, our husbands had taught us, was by not resisting.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.