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Quotes About Resistance

In nearly all cases, resistance must continue to drive dictators out of power. Success is most often determined not by negotiating a settlement but through the wise use of the most appropriate and powerful means of resistance available. It
~ Gene Sharp
Engage in friendly creative communication with the functionaries and troops serving the putschists while continuing resistance. Explain to them the reasons for the defense struggle, affirm the absence of ny intended violence against them, seek to undermine the reliability, and try to induce them to be helpful to the defenders.
~ Gene Sharp
At other times, agents provocateurs are placed within resistance groups to instigate or even commit acts of violence in order to supportthr charge that the resisters are using violence
~ Gene Sharp
Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.
~ Geneen Roth
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.
~ General John Stark
Sathan, that evere us waiteth to bigile.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It is agayns the proces of nature.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
If God's suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat's sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things need to happen before I desire to be good…
~ Geoffrey Wood
Wie lange sollen die Fußstapfen der Freiheit Gräber sein? - Ihr wollt Brot, und sie werfen euch Köpfe hin! Ihr durstet, und sie machen euch das Blut von den Stufen der Guillotine lecken!
~ Georg Buchner
The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Ganging up on a short-range interest isn't the same thing as killing it.
~ George Ainslie
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.
~ George Bidault
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
~ George C. Wallace
If crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?
~ George Carlin
He [Oliver Cromwell] said: "I see there is a people risen and come up that I cannot win either with gifts, honors, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can."
~ George Fox
In the fog of history and myth, the American role in championing and underwriting European integration is frequently forgotten, along with the resistance of the Europeans.
~ George Friedman
the idea that the past is obsolete is always resisted at an era's end.
~ George Friedman
He kissed my neck. The kiss sent tingling warmth down into my fingertips. I turned and he kissed me again, on the mouth. I was so tired . . . I wanted to melt against him and let him hold me. "You're trying to take advantage of an injured naked woman." "I know," he whispered in my ear, drawing me closer. "How awful.
~ Ilona Andrews
It's important to him that his resorting to violence is viewed as a deliberate choice rather than a loss of control on his part.
~ Ilona Andrews
Why me?" he said finally. "Are you on some sort of mission to fuck up my life?" "I try my best to avoid you." "You're doing a hell of a job." "I honestly don't mean to cause problems." "You don't cause problems. An unpiloted vampire causes problems. You cause catastrophes.
~ Ilona Andrews
People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are.
~ Ilona Andrews
If the clouds split open and an archangel descended onto the street in all of his heavenly glory and tried to make Rogan see reason, he would fail miserably and have to pack up his flaming sword and go back to Heaven in shame.
~ Ilona Andrews