Quotes About Resistance

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear without having so much as a smile for the young future.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Never underestimate the magnitude of the power of the forces that reinforce the status quo.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you're giving it power.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

There is none of you but will hang me, I know, whenever you can clinch me within your power.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.