Quotes About Resistance

Why don't I just kill them all as they come in? Orion said, without the slightest doubt in his ability to kill a billion mals. Shut up, Lake, I said, having many doubts about his ability to kill a billion mals.

I'd been trying really hard not to learn their names, but it wasn't going very well

he tried sitting next to me once and once only; I stared straight at him with all the murder in my heart and he stopped and took his hand out

If Napoleon can seek to ascend all the thrones of Europe, I suppose we may go dragging them out from under him

He demanded, grimly, "Enough?" I opened my mouth to say yes, to say please. "No," I whispered, horribly afraid now. I could feel the faint quicksilver trace of the shadows still inside me. If we stopped now, they would curl up deep, hiding in my veins and my belly. They would take root and grow and grow and grow, until they strangled all the rest of me.

Feiglings!" Eroica bellowed after them at the top of his lungs as they clawed and scattered his wing dragons.

But for my part, I did feel very much like i'd just been put against the wall by the most dragonish dinner lady at primary school.

The French seized his arms and put a blade to his throat, calling to Eroica, "Geben Sie oben

All labor systems that depend on coercing a work force into accepting bad conditions and unfair compensation have recognized the effectiveness of keeping that work force exhausted to keep it from making trouble.

Todos os sistemas de trabalho que dependem da coação de uma mão de obra, forçando-a a aceitar condições más e remuneração injusta, reconheceram a eficácia de manter essa mão de obra exausta para impedir que ela se rebele.

I have been arrested before in NYC, and it is frightening and uncomfortable. But when I asked if I could now walk away and take my train — no one stopped me. The takeaway? When I refused to comply with these unlawful "mandates" that had burnt out the soul of a once-great city, nothing happened. The bullies, Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, who put these scary-sounding, Dear Leader-esque "edicts" in place

One of my favorite quotations is this, from the late poet Audre Lorde: "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." It is truer now more than ever. This is a dangerous moment indeed.

Most people go through life by the line of least resistance in every circumstance where they can make a choice. They do not recognize that following the lines of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked!

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather … and burn churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons

They're also a danger to us all, because they help foster the evolution of increasingly drug-resistant bacteria in our bodies and in the environment

that was the way human beings are; they love to be told what to do, but they love even more to fight and not do what they are told, and thus they get entangled in hating the one who told them in the first place.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Go to hell, I whispered. The night darker than ever, leaned in against the window panes.

No tenía sueño, ni ganas de tentarlo.

Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone.

In verlorenen Schlachten besteht die letzte Verteidigung in der Gleichgültigkeit.

Page after page I let the spell of the story and its world take me over, until the breath of dawn touched my window and my tired eyes slid over the last page. I lay in the bluish half-light with the book on my chest and listened to the murmur of the sleeping city. My eyes began to close, but I resisted. I did not want to lose the story's spell or bid farewell to its characters yet.

Why are books burned? Through stupidity, ignorance, hatred...goodness only knows.