Quotes About Resistance

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

the world learned that Lady Liberty will shove her torch of freedom up your ass if you fuck with us.

Fine. If you insist. I'll try Just.One.Nibble. But-- I won't enjoy it.

So punk wasn't about decay, punk was about the apocalypse. Punk was about annihilation.

Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

Defenestration" is

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies." ? Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

It was tempting to give it just a trace of water but he resisted the temptation – better that it was forced to adjust to its new environment. Too much care and attention could ruin it – it was a characteristic that cacti shared with agents in the field.

It doesn't take much to make the daily round with one's employer work smoothly. A couple of 'yessirs' when you know that 'not on your life' is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you've spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn't take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I've ever considered giving

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

Act with the greatest determination and on the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed rising.

O' sanity, o' sanity What am I to do with you? Drink up, shoot up, anything you please But she's always standing behind me like a devil in hell

Temptations can come also from the deep-seated forces within us which we call passions, passions that often are rebellious and imperfectly controlled as a result of original sin. But from whatever source the temptation may come, we know that we can conquer it if we have the will to do so.

It is by conquering temptation that we acquire merit before God. It is through temptation, met and defeated, that we grow in holiness. There would be little credit in being good if it were easy to be good. The great saints were not men and women who had no temptations; in most cases, they were men and women who had tremendous temptations—and became saints by their victories. We shall not,

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Prominent opponents of the war, among them Dr. Spock and the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, openly counseled young men to resist the draft and were indicted.

Polls indicated that while women were growing increasingly sensitive about gender discrimination, only a small minority liked to be called feminists. The majority of housewives, indeed, told pollsters that they were largely content with their lives. Many resented being told by elitists that raising families was boring.

Now, taking books, or anything else, from a little girl is like taking arms from an Arab, or candy from a baby...

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant."42 Most of us automatically shy away from conflict