Quotes About Resistance

Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.

he kept saying to himself, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, never the Francis Bacon, absolutely not, I will not sell the Francis Bacon, no I won't, not the Francis Bacon.

dem Stumpfsinn sind immer alle nachgelaufen der Geist ist immer mit Füßen getreten worden

Montañas, resistencias, creadores de decenios destructores... tu expectativa de suicidio que continuamente hace caso omiso de ti.

Durmadan kendi kabuÄŸumuzun d???na ç?kma deneyi yap?yor, ama bu deneyde baÅŸar?s?z oluyoruz, hep tepetaklak yuvarlan?yoruz, çünkü kendi kabuÄŸumuzun d???na ölüm d???nda ç?kamayaca??m?z? anlamak istemiyoruz.

Until we have sinned, Satan is a parasite; when we have sinned, he is a tyrant.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease.

No oppressive government can survive if it has to use force to get people to obey its commands. What government must do is get the people to buy in, to voluntarily support their own oppressors, or the system will collapse.

When children strongly resist attempts to modify behavior that they feel won't interfere with the parents' needs, their behavior is no different from that of adults. No adult wants to modify her behavior when she is convinced that it is not hurting someone else. Adults as well as children will fight vigorously to maintain their freedom when they feel someone is pushing them to change behavior that is not interfering with the other person.

There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct – not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.

If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

He might fast and pray during the whole interval, but the human was more powerful in him than the Divine.

It wouldn't do, Mr Oak. I want somebody to tame me; I am too independent; and you would never be able to, I know. Oak cast his eyes down the field in a way implying that it was useless to attempt argument.

As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point on the circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it. If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man!

Here, he's resting on the examining table. Pulse seventy-two. Here, he grabs the nurse's head and pulls her down to him. Here, he is subdued by the attendant. He didn't resist, by the way, though the attendant dislocated his shoulder. Do you notice the strange thing? His pulse never got over eighty-five. Even when he tore out her tongue.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant!

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.