Quotes About Resistance

The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.

It takes a man to make a devil.

The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished; it will break into flames that will destroy every coercion which seems to limit it.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar away from him, and you'll get yourself a fight.

I found his last words without too much searching. Captured by the Bolivian army, Guevara said, 'Shoot, coward. You are only going to kill a man.

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

We understand nature by resisting it.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

I took piano for many years. I kicked and screamed through all of my lessons, but my mom really insisted.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.

Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!

You keep folks so intimidated. You can give them money, access, but they're still scared. And as long as you're scared, you're on the plantation.

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom.

Both force and money are impotent against ideas.

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Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.

If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.

Satan gets disturbed -and defeated -when you decide to do more that be a Sunday-morning Christian.

I would get up in the morning and I would say, "How am I going to bother them today?"

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

I never took banned substances, but I have been courted by doctors who wanted to improve my blood in the laboratory. My mother always put them on a flight.

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting.