Quotes About Resistance

You can't twist Al Sharpton's arm.

I resisted Twitter for a long time. To me, it was synonymous with networking, which in my mind means unceasing self-promotion and superficial small-talk with strangers. A little like wading into a river with a raging current - and I'm a terrible swimmer.

I continue to shun, in a very curmudgeonly fashion, things like Twitter and Facebook.

To steal a term from one of my Twitter followers, 'Deathlok' is the 'anti-villain.' He's on the side of the bad guys, but he obviously doesn't want to be there.

I am on Facebook, but it's mainly for friends and family, so it's not my real name. But I am on Twitter a lot. I resisted it for so long, but I love it because I get to connect with people I look up to - actors, comedians, and singers.

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs.

My father was up against so many different types of resistance. His whole life was an interplay of East and West. He was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, which was under British rule then.

I'm your typical highly educated, progressive white dude. I've lived my life resisting racism both within myself and in the society around me.

I hate the new word processors that want to tell you, as you're typing, that you made a mistake. I have to turn off all that crap. It's like, shut up - I'm thinking now. I will worry about that sort of error later. I'm a human being. I can still read this, even though it's wrong. You stupid machine, the fact that you can't is irrelevant to me.

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

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.

We will oppose and resist tyranny as we will defeat evil.

It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.

I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.

Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.

Beyond the barricades we long to see a Hong Kong free from tyranny and a puppet government.

The Holy Book calls upon Muslims to resist tyranny. Dictatorships in Pakistan, however long, have, therefore, always collapsed in the face of this spirit.

Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

Let tyrants shake their iron rod.