Quotes About Resistance

instead he was being led away from his proper Emma by a woman who was conducting a revolution in his kitchen.

I've got my rights, haven't I? If I choose to say nothing, I suppose I can. It's no use your trying to use third degree methods on me." "Nowadays," said Mallett quietly, "people of your sort usually call them 'Gestapo methods'. You should try to be a little more up to date.

How to resist nothingness? What power Preserves what once was, if memory does not last? For I remember little. I remember so very little.

In 1942 in Warsaw, we were living without hope, or rather on a hope we knew to be a delusion.

Sono gli impiegati che inventano, in fin dei conti, tutte queste scartoffie [i passaporti] per avvelenare la vita agli uomini, e le loro disposizioni non vanno prese troppo sul serio.

A man may persuade himself, by the most logical reasoning, that he will greatly benefit his health by swallowing live frogs; and, thus rationally convinced, he may swallow a first frog, then the second; but at the third his stomach will revolt. In the same way, the growing influence of the doctrine on my way of thinking came up against the resistance of my whole nature.

All the crushing might of an armed state is hurled against any man who refuses to accept the New Faith. At the same time, Stalinism attacks him from within, saying his opposition is caused by his "class consciousness", just as psychoanalysts accuse their foes of wanting to preserve their complexes.

Jerry hesitated. She said, "But Rudge, you ought to go—if they want you, I mean." "Not me," replied Rudge, taking another mouthful of sausage. "Why should I go? It ain't my war. I never wanted war with the Germans." "Nobody wanted war!" cried Jerry. "Why did they 'ave it then? They won't get me for cannon fodder," said Rudge with a grin.

There will be no more protest. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech." I said Alexnder Naymeer and Bobby Pendragon, Raven Rise, Page 458

Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

The Fatherland Liberation War, which the Korean people fought against the haughty U.S. imperialists who had battened on aggression and pillage, was, in fact, a hard fight that could be likened to a bare-handed man versus brigandish robbers.

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.

I avoided the computer generation for a very long time.

There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

There is big resistance from vested interests in China that don't want to open up to competition.

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Man has fallen victim to seduction since times immemorial.