Quotes About Resistance

Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.

Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.

The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.

At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

The first step in having any successful war is getting people to fight it.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

The thing about war is that once it's triggered, it is unyielding in its appetite. And the more it consumes and gorges, the more it wants.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

I have had a long tug-of-war going on with the FDA, in particular, and with other regulatory agencies, and it has nothing to do with vaccines.

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

When I got back from the war in 1946 people didn't want the Mr. Smith kind of movie any more, and I refused to make war pictures.

A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice.