Quotes About Resistance

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

Trying to control information in the network age is about as successful as pissing into the wind.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

People who thus set their lives against destruction have necessarily confronted in themselves the absurdity that they have recognized in their society.

Ease of going was translated without pause into a principled unwillingness to stop.

A number of people, by now, have told me that I could greatly improve things by buying a computer. My answer is that I am not going to do it. I have several reasons, and they are good ones.

Never choose a battle; only fight if you cannot walk away.

One has sufficient enemies amongst men without deliberately seeking out others amongst the gods.

She was unlike most other girls of her age, in this—that she had ideas of her own, and was stiff-necked enough to set the fashions themselves at defiance, if the fashions didn't suit her views.

It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.