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Quotes About Resistance

Our war cries opened the deaf ears of the almighty government and its accomplices.
~ Subcomandante Marcos
Comedy opens you up to ideas that a straight-up drama doesn't. You resist those messages when they come to you earnestly or dramatically.
~ Rick Famuyiwa
If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.
~ Robert Lepage
We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.
~ Devin McCourty
He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
~ Samuel Butler
If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cada impulso que intentamos aniquilar germina en la mente y nos envenena
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.
~ Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything but temptation
~ Oscar Wilde
El único modo de librarnos de la tentación es ceder a ella.
~ Oscar Wilde
We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful
~ Oscar Wilde
La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal. Se ha dicho que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo suceden en el cerebro. Es también en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde se cometen los grandes pecados.
~ Oscar Wilde
I can resist anything except temptation - Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
~ Oscar Wilde
El único camino para deshacerse de la tentación es ceder a ella
~ Oscar Wilde
We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages in Vietnam
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
I was stopped in the dense Soviet wood by bandits who called themselves my judges.
~ Osip Mandelstam
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.
~ Ousmane Sembene
Je préfère devenir aveugle, être brûlée dans un incendie ou mourir par petits morceaux que d'adresser la parole à ce bouc. Ce que j'ai fait à son Vendredi, je suis prête à le refaire. Ces gens-là ne sont ni des parents, ni des amis, ils sont prêts à lécher le derrière des toubabs pour avoir des médailles, tout le monde le sait. Ne pleure plus, lève-toi, on s'en va. Moi j'ai assez vu leurs figures!
~ Ousmane Sembene
Man's inability to get out of bed in the morning is a curious thing. One may reason with oneself clearly and forcibly without the slightest effect. One knows that delay means inconvenience. Perhaps it may spoil one's whole day. And one also knows that a single resolute heave will do the trick. But logic is of no use. One simply lies there.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Yeah, fucknuts, its you. You're me. To get into this place, You're gonna have to kill me. Which is not gonna happen 'cause I'm not so cool with dying. What is gonna happen is that i'm gonna kick your ass and kill you dead.
~ P.C. Cast