Quotes About Resistance

We have had a close shave, I can tell you. If the French had landed in force, if the peasants throughout the country had rallied to them. The Irish must be taught a lesson. London will expect that. We are schoolmasters as well, you see. Scullery maids and hangmen and schoolmasters. The lessons taught by armies are hard ones.

The man who conquered Ireland could be a match for the man who did not conquer Egypt.

Impoverished inhabitants of the state's most scenic area fight with fanatical determination to prevent a national park from opening up in their neighborhood, while the rails-to-trails program, regarded everywhere else in the union as a harmless scheme for family fun, is reviled in Kansas as an infernal design on the rights of property owners.

Urging a boss to punish a worker for an overheard remark is the kind of officiousness that people sometimes resent.

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breastThe little tyrant of his fields withstood;Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest,Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

He [King George III] has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

Sometimes tyrants do away with the necessity of satire by imposing absurdity themselves.

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that, if we buy into the notion of an impartial justice system, tribes and bands can be forced through a long, convoluted, and expensive process designed to wear us down and bankrupt our economies. Be good. Play by our rules. Don't cause a disturbance.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia.

These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything.

We no longer have those principled and informed arguments. The foundational knowledge of the average American is now so low that it has crashed through the floor of "uninformed," passed "misinformed" on the way down, and is now plummeting to "aggressively wrong." People don't just believe dumb things; they actively resist further learning rather than let go of those beliefs.

These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. In

These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. In the United States and other developed nations, otherwise intelligent people denigrate intellectual achievement and reject the advice of experts. Not only do increasing numbers of laypeople lack basic knowledge, they reject fundamental rules of evidence and refuse to learn how to make a logical argument.

Tis time to die when we are ourselves our foes.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.