Quotes About Resistance

America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last week. Not to face now or the future, but to face backwards.

Saying no, I thought, that has always been my forte, and no wonder, given that the stupidity of the world is rivalled only by its ugliness.

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.

antagonist having one hand strapped behind his back and the other

the whole art of guerrilla warfare lies in striking the enemy where he least expects it and yet where he is most vulnerable

The Art of Guerrilla Warfare and The Partisan Leaders' Handbook.

Fundado en la combinación incesante de posibilidades inéditas, el capitalismo encuentra en la indiferencia una condición ideal para su experimentación, que puede cumplirse así con un mínimo de resistencia. Instrumento de ninguna instancia en particular, la indiferencia es metapolítica, meta-económica, permite al capitalismo entrar en su fase de funcionamiento operacional.

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet a version of yourself who has been seeking you.

What do you resist examining up close? How can you ground yourself so you feel safe enough to try?

What we resist persists.

when one goes about God's work, Satan sets up great barriers, but if one abides by the Father, He will draw together like-minded brethren.

She formed the words, chewed them, felt them move in her mouth, but something in her refused to speak them.

Nuestra herencia de tambores batientes ha de continuar latiendo en la sangre de estas generaciones. Es lo único, Yarince, que permaneció: la resistencia.

La giovane, che non era di ferro né di diamante, assai agevolmente si piegò ai piaceri dello abate.

Orice guvern va conduce lumea, eu voi fi mereu în opoziÅ£ie.

Desde entonces comenzó la guerra entre los hombres y yo.

Also, now that we were just one league among many, we had needed a league name. And so we had become, despite Eleanor's objections, Aunt Nellie's All-Star Resistance League—the Resisters, for short.

In Hong Kong, there was no People of Color club because they were all the same color, and if you said bad things about white people, it wasn't racism, it was resistance, unless you said it to their face. Then it was speaking truth to power.

Early in 1943, when the Germans had ordered that the 25,000 Jews of Sofia be deported to Poland, one man – Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, Apostolic Delegate to Turkey, later Pope John xxiii – acted without thought of political expediency or of what the Nazis might do.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

I do not want to die, Croaker. All that I am shrieks against the unrighteousness of death. All that I am, was, and probably will be, is shaped by my passion to evade the end of me.

Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the right time.