Quotes About Resistance

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

You move on. You move back. On because you're always getting older, back because there's always a set of habits and routines to catch you and suck you back in when your guard is down.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

With my music, I create change...I am using my music as a weapon.

Music is the weapon. Music is the weapon of the future.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

In pop music, you say, 'You can do what you want to me.' Rock 'n' roll says, 'I'm gonna do what I want to you.'

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Bad presidents make for great music, and I'm gonna do my best to provide it.