Quotes About Resistance

Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!

the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

Lack of discipline is an invader, constantly searching for ways into your life, testing your defenses at every turn. It is a time-traveling bandit that steals from the pockets of the future you and tosses a fraction of that future reward to your present self while keeping the rest.

The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language we speak to them—violence.

I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

if we don't rebel, if we're not physically in an active rebellion, then it's spiritual death.

That's how it was supposed to be, and you really prefer things to be the way they are supposed to be. Funny, when you find things to be not to your liking you try to force them to be otherwise.

The weekly meeting of permanent secretaries takes place in the boardroom of the Cabinet Office overlooking Horse-guards' Parade. As the senior civil servants in charge of each of the main Whitehall departments, they meet, in theory, to co-ordinate government policy. In practice they also sometimes co-ordinate resistance to government policy.

People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain

Jake wasn't about to be seduced like some schoolgirl. Not by a man who went by the unlikely name of Tornado, not by anyone. He stood as firmly as he could in the mud and tore his mouth from the kiss, staring into too dark eyes. As his hands made their way into Tor's wet jeans he said, "This doesn't mean I like you, you know.

He gave River a couple of apples and some water, keeping an eye on Tor, who was now standing, shaking with anger. Jake decided it was a good thing he was mad at Tor, 'cause shit, the man was soaked, everything clung to him and he looked hard and lean and completely touchable. Yeah, best to be pissed at the jerk when he looked like that.

Tyler turned down the candy because it would make him run slower.

We need to take time to connect with the poor, resist our unceasing cravings, and pray. But we also need to gather with friends and family, share in God's good provision, eat delicious food, tell stories that encourage us all, and celebrate the risen Lord.

It is not. The aspiring leader has been set up to fail. He just doesn't recognize it yet. The first few months go well, but reality soon sets in. It is not easy for one person to create change in a large corporation. After one year, the leader feels though he is trying to make innovation happen inside an organization that is, in every way, determined to fight his every move.

Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. Rumors circulate around the schoolyard: kids who draw or wear white socks and bring violins to school on Wednesdays might have cooties. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

From the beginning, Fassbinder's films showed that with the help of art it is possible to defend oneself against the destructive forces of the present, and that in the artistic process there is some kind of labour of resistance and a possibility of survival. It gradually also became a fundamental theme of his films.

Here is where Darwin's ideas encountered the strongest resistance, lasting up to the present day; they implied a lack of purpose in nature.

Es gibt Krisen, die dadurch entstehen, daß sich eine neue Kraft bildet, die zum Sturm auf das Bestehende ansetzt. Und es gibt auch Krisen, die entstehen dadurch oder bestehen darin, daß man sie dafür hält.

I'll play your fucking game. But I don't have to play by your rules.

wage an ongoing war with the elements...we have to push back against the unruly outdoors to keep chaos at bay.

It's brave to resist the pull of the familiar. To be selfish about your own needs. I wrestle with that every day.

We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, "We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?