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Quotes About Resistance

He spun away from his friends. Glanced down. The puddles were now undulating fiercely against the jagged rocks lining the ground. They were still beckoning. Deliverance, they whispered. Just for a little while….
~ Gena Showalter
No. Dang him, no!
~ Gena Showalter
Work with Evangeline Black? I'd rather be slit open from navel to nose." -CORBIN BLUE "Good thing I always carry a knife." -EVIE BLACK
~ Gena Showalter
Every resistance will be met and conquered until you've soared over the sweet edge of surrender.
~ Gena Showalter
Pin his fucking legs." "Can't. Got his arms." "Knock him out, Paris." "Sure. Want me to spew diamonds from my ass while I'm at it?" A
~ Gena Showalter
Right now steam enveloped her and Sabin, thick as clouds. Hot water cascaded down the planes and curves of her body. Nothing had ever felt so amazing—except for the naked man behind her, pinning her in, keeping her inside. She would not hook up with a demon, no matter how sexy he was. Would she? Her life didn't need more weird. Did it? Why
~ Gena Showalter
You resist, and it drives me wild.
~ Gena Showalter
though he is a god, and destroying him will prove the most difficult task of your existence, he is very much like you
~ Gena Showalter
Doing what's right isn't always supported by those around you. Even the most well-meaning people can stumble into darkness.
~ Gena Showalter
He's going to do her hard," one of them said. They were talking about Lucius, who was to be my new master. My reaction? Mental eye-roll and gag. The fact that Lucius had already "done" me pretty damn hard didn't factor into the picture.
~ Gena Showalter
People are the most difficult thing in the world to change
~ Gena Showalter
I know in another decade or two I'm going to have to get used to the idea of reading without paper in my hands, but I'm going to be making that trip kicking and screaming. Maybe that sounds stubborn, but my relationship with the printed word is the longest one I've ever had and I'm not ready to quit on it yet.
~ Gene Doucette
So this is how it feels to be a man tempted—face to face—by the tempter. So
~ Gene Edwards
When everyone is conditioned to believe that no isn't an acceptable answer, we all just became compliant order takers, blindly marching down a doomed path. I
~ Gene Kim
If we know it's that prone to crashing, why do we need to change it?
~ Gene Kim
Doing this requires disruption and innovation, which puts us at odds with groups who are currently responsible for daily operations and the internal bureaucracies, and who will almost always win.
~ Gene Kim
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.
~ Gene Sharp
The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.
~ Gene Sharp
Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.
~ Gene Sharp
The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the regime.
~ Gene Sharp
The first basic principle of ??anti coup? defense is therefore to deny legitimacy to the putschists
~ Gene Sharp
Nonviolent struggle both requires and tends to produce a loss (or greater control) of fear of the government and its violent repression. That abandonment or control of fear is a key element in destroying the power of the dictators over the general population.
~ Gene Sharp
Resistane violence may help unite the putschists' basic supporters and military forces against the ?anti coup? defenders
~ Gene Sharp
For example, disciplined courageous nonviolent resistance in face of the dictators' brutalities may induce unease, disaffection, unreliability, and in extreme situations even mutiny among the dictators' own soldiers and population.
~ Gene Sharp