Quotes About Resistance

One commonly hears that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'They present solutions, but I don't like them.

In Greece, British troops entered after the Nazis had withdrawn. They imposed a corrupt regime that evoked renewed resistance, and Britain, in its postwar decline, was unable to maintain control. In 1947, the United States moved in, supporting a murderous war that resulted in about 160,000 deaths.

The seventh myth was that Israel intended to conduct a benevolent occupation but was forced to take a tougher attitude because of Palestinian violence. Israel regarded from the very beginning any wish to end the occupation—whether expressed peacefully or through struggle—as terrorism. From the beginning, it reacted brutally by collectively punishing the population for any demonstration of resistance.

The appeal of the antifascist resistance required the United States and United Kingdom to move quickly, and often brutally, to dismantle the resistance and its accomplishments, particularly in northern Italy, where workers had taken over plants and the germs of a free self-governing society were beginning to flourish.

counterinsurgency"—a standard term for terrorism that we direct.

Those who are advantaged by the status quo are continually at work to make us understand that the way things are is the way things should be. And thus, the ways in which we understand the world are very much connected to the ways in which we interact with the world.

Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, which was efficient but also a highly controlling device. There was a problem with the assembly line. It's so onerous that people dropped out. They couldn't stand it. They had to hire almost a thousand workers to see if they could get one hundred to stay on.

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome." ? Noam Chomsky

Rashid was crushed in his wheelchair when one of Israel's huge US-supplied bulldozers demolished his home with the family inside. Thanks to prevailing moral standards, such acts are also excluded from the canon of terrorism (or worse, war crimes), by virtue of wrong agency.3

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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win," Mahatma Gandhi.

The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In

A few days after my new state occupied my village, I became a prisoner of war rather than a citizen.

Si credono i padroni dell'umanità e purtroppo lo stanno diventando: la politica democratica ha cessato di resistere loro, spianando la strada alla dittatura incondizionata dei poteri forti, economici e finanziari, che ormai dettano le condizioni della nostra vita pubblica.

Recall Bernard Fall's estimate that by April 1965, before the first North Vietnamese battalion was detected in the South, more than 160,000 "Viet Cong" had fallen "under the crushing weight of American armor, napalm, jet bombers and, finally, vomiting gases.

A sit-down strike is just one step short of saying, "Look, instead of sitting down, we'll run this place. We don't need owners and managers." That's huge. That could be done in Detroit and in other places that are being closed down.

A senior Israeli intelligence officer explained that the IDF attacked "both aspects of Hamas—its resistance or military wing and its dawa, or social wing," the latter a euphemism for the civilian society.

si quieres derribar un gobierno, armas a su ejército y, por supuesto, haces difícil que funcione el gobierno civil.

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for.

Why do I find it irresistible when you tell me to go to hell so politely?

He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup. They'd roast his balls.

That was well-done, Alan told her later as he gave Shelby a limited tour of the house. Was it? Laughing,she linked her hand with his. He's a difficult man to resist. She rose on her toes to nibble his earlobe. So's his firstborn. That term's to be used reverently, Alan warned her. Personally I've always found it a pain in the-

Why stop now? Seduce me, Brian.I dare you. I've always found it hard to turn aside a dare.

I-I have to go, she began, then bit her lip as she realized she was stuttering again-a habit she seemed to have developed in the past twenty-four hours.Forgetting her sketch pad, she stepped off the rock and prepared to make an undignified dash for her car. In the next instant she was whirled around. His face was set, his breathing unsteady. I was wrong. His voice filled her head, emptying it of everything else. I have a great deal of trouble resisting you.