Quotes About Resistance

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

Long live protest songs, in whatever form they take.

Curses aren't passive things. They'll fight back.

It's exhausting, trying to make a bad person act good. You can see why it's so much easier for them to be bad.

Eventually, we all must go to sleep. This is our first intimation that the body always wins. No matter how hapywe are, no matter ow much we want our night to stretch out infinitely, sleep is inevitable. You might be able to dodge it for one giddy cycle, but the body's need will always return.

I have been in the bodies of starvers and purgers, gluttons and addicts. They all think their actions make their lives more desirable. But the body always defeats them in the end.

There's much protest, but it falls on deaf ears.

look, tiny - i'm trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i'm always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don't know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always.

I tried to shut myself down completely, put up my best screensaver personality to coast through the day. I didn't want to see her. I was desperate to see her. I wanted to hold it together. I wanted to melt down right at her feet and scream, Look what you've done to me.

i am like a dead begonia hanging upside down because like a dead begonia i don't give a fuck

Don't give me that, Charlie

The Right has been hamstrung in resistance by adherence to law; for, to a conservative, what greater crime than adopting terror (the rejection of law) to preserve law? (Compare this from the Vietnam War: "We destroyed the village in order to save

Anybody who tries to pass me will have a headache.

It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting or trying

It is resistance that keeps the feeling going.

A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the energy behind it dissipates.

That brings up one of the resistances to surrendering pride, and that is pride itself. In the prideful position, one of the underlying problems is fear. We fear that, if we change our position in a certain matter, the opinion of others about us will be adversely affected.

That which we want, desire, and insist upon from another person is felt by them as pressure. They will, therefore, unconsciously resist.

When you refuse the devil, you always think you'll get another chance, another offer. A final refusal feels like a penalty of a different kind.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you are so sorely mistaken.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you

I felt my eyes tear up, and as my vision blurred I considered all the people who had fought against this and thought, Take that, assholes.

At a certain age—six months for a mouse, the equivalent of fifty years for a human—the mechanism of resistance is weakened.

Schopenhauer's saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.