Quotes About Resistance

Once people sense their own power, no authoritarian government can stand against the people who are determined to be free.

I cannot stand authority.

People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.

The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.

We must continue to step in and stand up to resist reckless rhetoric and actions in a peaceful and forceful manner.

I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.

I'm not scared of the president of the United States. And I'm not scared to stand up against the president of the United States.

I was always seen as defiant. And I did know that as a kid. It just wasn't something that was stamped out of me. I often had problems in school where I would stand up to teachers or I would believe that something they were saying was wrong.

If you don't have anything to stand up for, you fall for everything.

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.

The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

Resistance to Brexit is the logic of everything Labour stands for.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Man acts only when he is sure of the justness of his action, as we threw the bomb in the Legislative Assembly