Quotes About Resistance

Catholicism has the clerical equivalent to a nut allergy - even a small exposure to change, and the whole thing will go into anaphylactic shock.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.

Obstruction takes time.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

It is clear to me now that the universe in its truculence doesn't permit itself to be that well known.

When you start to open a door, the pressure has to be greatest in the beginning, yet the door moves the least.

Does everyone here grow the way you do? puffed Milo when he had caught up. Almost everyone, replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. Now and then, though, some- one does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to dis- courage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else, said Alec thoughtfully, and I've heard that they walk among the stars.

better to be stoned in the plaza than to turn the mill that squeezes out the juice of life, that turns eternity into empty hours, minutes into prisons, and time into copper coins and abstract shit

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

For every dream, there is automatically going to be resistance. But your sheer will and desire can be stronger than the shadow. You get to decide. You get to declare, I want this, and confront the fear head-on.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

I asked him about his enemies. He began to count them. The list went on and on.... - Conversations with Yahya Kemal

Writers like Pierre Loti, by contrast, make no secret of loving Istanbul and the Turkish people for the opposite reason: for the preservation of their eastern particularity and their resistance to becoming western.

Oare Negru, care-l citise atât de îndelung pe Nazami, simÈ›ea c?, la fel ca Sirin, îi ziceam "nu-mi r?ni buzele cu s?rut?rile tale, nu face asta!", dar îi spuneam, de fapt, dincolo de propriile vorbe "f?-o!"?

În astfel de împrejur?ri, adic? imediat ce mintea noastr? neîndur?toare pricepe dureroasa realitate pe care inima refuz? cu înverÅŸunare s-o recunoasc?, întregul nostru trup se revolt? împotriva ei.