Quotes About Resistance

Not everyone in Paris was awed by Sartre's wartime politics. "Some wits," as one historian puts it, "remark[ed] later that Sartre joined the resistance on the same day as the Paris police." In other words: ten days before the liberation.

Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

May heaven be in my eyes that sin might have less power upon my heart.

though my flesh contradict and rebel, yet I will endeavour to govern my life by your direction.

I'm being mellow, but everyone else is rowing against my harmony stream.

There's no question I'm going to do everything within the normal political bounds to make sure we don't nominate Donald Trump.

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

Yeah, I kind of looked around and I can't understand why nobody else is speaking up. Later when I faced the backlash of speaking up, I realized why nobody did.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

It is time to stop talking about non-violence and to begin talking about force without violence.

Father Time is the enemy none of us can beat.

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

I lived across the street from Noodle Bar. I could barely stand it, because you're there all the time; you can't get away.

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

Nostalgia is a strange and powerful emotion. As much we try and fight it and fight ourselves, it's very hard not to.

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

I am not interested in trying to convince and change the mind of a bigot.

You don't need to be a fan of wars or militarism to note that heroic action - whether being prepared to be jailed as a conscientious objector or putting your life on the line by joining the resistance - creates a sense of meaning when society faces a huge challenge.

Attacking me and Fox News is nothing new - it's a cottage industry.

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

People give me advice all the time, and I don't take a blind bit of notice.

There is a noticeable difference from a crowd surging against you and a crowd surging with you.

The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.

Academicians get nowhere.