Quotes About Resistance

That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

As whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

But Henry was not prepared to submit. In a speech supporting his resolutions, he supposedly exclaimed, "Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third..." Before he could finish the phrase, red-robed Speaker of the House John Robinson cried, "Treason! Treason," as other burgesses took up the cry. But Henry stared the Speaker in the eye and finished his sentence: "...may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!

against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail. General

Hellingafwaards. Je wil wel, maar moet lopen alsof je niet wil.

My other self lacks self-discipline; left to his own devices, he will always take the path of least resistance through life and as a result will be little more than a simple-minded pleasure seeker. He is also a coward. My other self is not my friend; to the contrary, he is best regarded, in the words of Epictetus, "as an enemy lying in wait.

The fact of the matter is that, in waging a scorched earth, no-holds-barred war of 'Resistance' against this Administration, it is the Left that is engaged in the systematic shredding of norms and the undermining of the rule of law. This highlights a basic disadvantage that conservatives have always had in contesting the political issues of the day. It was adverted to by the old, curmudgeonly Federalist, Fisher Ames, in an essay during the early years of the Republic.

how it is; your violent complainers

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau.Mock on, mock on—'tis all in vain!You throw the sand against the wind,And the wind blows it back again.

In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.