Quotes About Resistance

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Only the man who says no is free

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.

Like a dead man, only friction could make him warm or violence make him mobile.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within.

Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.