Quotes About Resistance

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

It is true that the battle for secularism must be fought in the hearts and minds of people, but how does one reach out to the hearts and minds in a fascist state?

I remember, I used to get off a bus, and if there was someone sitting in the station, I remember thinking maybe they were from Shin Bet and came for me.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

Individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.

Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what they've already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.

When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

I think when somebody wants to work diligently, when somebody wants to take away the cobwebs and see where attention is needed, to fix things, there is obviously going to be a backlash from those who have, for years, gained from status quo.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

in 1942 in an essay in which he meditated on some "visions of a totalitarian future." In it, he explained why he thought the working class would be most resistant to an intrusive right-wing state:

How long shall thy Madness outbrave our justice?