Quotes About Resistance

The fact that they came to our land, I know not why, does that mean we should poison our present and our future? Sooner or later they will leave our country, just as many people throughout history left many countries. The railways, ships, hospitals, factories and schools will be ours and we'll speak their language without either a sense of guilt or a sense of gratitude. Once again we shall be as we were - ordinary people - and if we are lies we shall be lies of our own making.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Tumultuarios! ¡Proscritos!

In the end they had lost everything, their freedom as men, their rights as men, their dignity as men, and had become nothing else but slaves of an omnipotent State, working endlessly, half-starved, half-clothed, half-sheltered in ruined buildings, endlessly spied upon, supervised, commanded by the Military and treated like dogs.

Contra el poder del dinero y la corrupción no podrá hacerse nada.

You're the kinda reckless that should send me runnin' but I kinda know that I won't get far.

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do. At

The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

I've gone into the outside world to reobserve society. The sign language of emotion I once knew has been replaced by a matrix of interrelated equations. Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

Louise?" "Hmm? Sorry, I was distracted. What did you say?" "I said, what do you think about our Mr. Hossner here?" "I prefer not to." "I've tried that myself: ignoring the government, seeing if it would go away. It hasn't.

Te? tego próbowa?em. Ignorowa? rz?d w nadziei, ?e zniknie. Nie znikn??.

The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exactly what it wants. We can tell that we are encountering a real work of art by the degree to which it resists subjectivity.

The rat is in the trap, it is in the trap,And attacking heaven and earth with a mouthful of screeches like torn tin.

People resist being put into categories.

Che Guevara's manual: Know the terrain; hit the enemy at its weakest; never use brute strength.

A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

However much we talk about our longing for change in ourselves and the world, the actual prospect of that change, and the cost of it in terms of engaging in battle with the powers of conformity, produces some ambivalence at best. Ambivalence generates resistance. It is hard to get carried away when we're hanging on tightly to the familiar.

My observation after thirty-five years of school administration, parenting, pastoral work, and counseling is that children generally do not resist authority that is truly kind and selfless.

There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity.

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.