Quotes About Resistance

Osiemnastego wieczorem zebrali?my si? u Anielewicza, ca?a pi?tka, sztab. Ja chyba by?em najstarszy, mia?em dwadzie?cia dwa lata, Anielewicz by? m?odszy o rok, razem, w pi?ciu, mieli?my sto dziesi?? lat.

It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

I tell you what, sometimes you get so obstinate you have to be gently forced to see where your happiness lies.

It doesn't matter if one man fights or ten thousand; if the one man sees he has no option but to fight, then he will fight, whether he has others on his side or not.

Anna Quangel felt herself trembling. Then she looked over at Otto again. He might be right: whether their act was big or small, no one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and abilities, but the main thing was, you fought back. Still

O]b wenig oder viel, niemand konnte mehr als sein Leben wagen. Jeder nach seinen Kräften und Anlagen – die Hauptsache: man widerstand.

Cuando la burguesía ve huir el poder de sus manos, recurre al fascismo para mantenerse. Buenaventura Durruti

Durruti pasaba delante de los policías sin inmutarse. "Yo tengo tanto miedo como tu", dijo. "El miedo y el valor vienen juntos. A veces no sé dónde termina el uno y dónde termina el otro".

He is not pestered by the banal desires common to all men; he is tempted by the greatest, the most momentous, messianic temptations; they must be met and overcome in the desert where Israel experienced them and later succumbed.

Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

Lincoln jibed that a general INVADED Canada without resistance and out-vaded it without pursuit.

I think I'll be moving on tomorrow," she said. "What for? Got anything better to do?" She shook her head. "No. But this isn't my bag. You know that. These cars don't make any noise." "Someday all cars won't make noise," he said.

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

If it were your Harry, mother, or your Willie, that were going to be torn from you by a brutal trader, tomorrow morning,—if you had seen the man, and heard that the papers were signed and delivered, and you had only from twelve o'clock till morning to make good your escape,—how fast could you walk?

My country again! Mr. Wilson, you have a country; but what country have I, or any one like me, born of slave mothers? What laws are there for us? We don't make them,—we don't consent to them,—we have nothing to do with them; all they do for us is to crush us, and keep us down.

Kavga etmek ve suçlamak kimi zaman, bir yöne ya da diÄŸerine doÄŸru ad?m atmaya haz?r olmad???m?z zamanlarda, hem statükoyu korumak hem de statükoya baÅŸkald?rmak amac?yla kulland???m?z bir yoldur.

A resistance stirs within us. Do we *want* our theology paraded thus? As natural men, no. We do not want it any more than we want the discipling of the Christian moral law, repentance, the painful call of self-surrender. but if it is the intellectual expression of that faith by which we live, how can our minds work Christianly without it? Wherever men think and talk, the banner will have to be raised.

Hitler couldn't have conquered Europe without the help provided by the governments of the occupied nations.

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.

I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches. I blot out cemetaries. I feed the people with stinging nettles. I resurrect madness. I thrust my naked sword between the ribs of the world. I murder the world!

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.