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Quotes About Resistance

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
~ Edmund Burke
This is a fight between a free world and a slave world.
~ Henry A. Wallace
I shall await the first shot, and if you do not batter us to pieces, we shall be starved out in a few days.
~ Robert Anderson
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
~ Howard Zinn
If you want to end war and stuff, you gotta sing loud.
~ Arlo Guthrie
In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.
~ Eduardo Galeano
We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.
~ Marianne Williamson
They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
~ Joseph Heller
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
~ Philip Roth
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.
~ Adolf Hitler
Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.
~ Malcolm X
The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.
~ Robert E. Lee
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.
~ Pablo Picasso
This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?
~ Lowkey
The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.
~ Devendra Banhart
I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Indian wars have never ended in the Americas.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Art isn't done to decorate apartments, but to wage war against the enemy.
~ Pablo Picasso
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope of conquering Scotland, and the Wee Free Men remained both wee and free.
~ Terry Pratchett
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
~ William O. Douglas
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What if when they called a war, no one went?
~ Abbie Hoffman
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
~ Carl Sandburg