Quotes About Resistance

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.

The horrors that we have seen, the still greater horrors we shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable men are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile men. —George Bernanos

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

They saw that temptation coming but neither fought it off nor turned away from it toward something else. Simply, briefly, they chose not to hop on board with it. What did they do instead? Nothing. They let their spaciousness be. This

I didn't fight the desire to drink anymore; I just did not drink.

No, it couldn't all be bad the way Stonebreaker insisted it was. There were people who hid the children from the sanctioned murderers; people who looked the horror in the eye and said, no, no, you can't do it any more, we're against you even if you kill us. Thus had Sweeney's friends acted, and they had redeemed belief and tradition for millions.

Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.

Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.

I'm beginning to feel that same absolute determination that we cannot -must not!- simply sit back and accept cruelty and injustice. If we do, we become part of it.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

The only menace is inertia.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

The devil does not stay where music is.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

There is no armour against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'