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Quotes About Resistance

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
~ Learned Hand
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
The only cowards are sinners fighting the fight is all.
~ John G. Neihardt
Fighting Dad's not a fight. Fighting dad is, "Hi, you've just instigated your own mugging! Come on down!"
~ Christopher Titus
No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke
~ Melina Marchetta
Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.
~ Chuck Berry
Woe and death to all who resist my will!
~ Wilhelm II
One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.
~ Georges Danton
Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.
~ Charles Darwin
Let death find us as we are building up our matchstick protests against its waves.
~ Alain de Botton
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
~ Denis Diderot
Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
~ Thomas Browne
To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."
~ Carl Sandburg
Where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation.
~ Leon Trotsky
What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.
~ Ralph Merkle
Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.
~ Ja Rule
Death to the pigs is my basic statement.
~ Boots Riley
Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.
~ Hugo Chavez
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
~ Stephen King, It
I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Sylvia Levov stoically and impatiently endured him, her only successful form of resistance being to freeze him out and live with the isolation—and see more of herself evaporating year by year.
~ Philip Roth
Something was on top of him that had called a halt to him. Something had turned him into a human platitude. Something had warned him: You must not run counter to anything.
~ Philip Roth
an aging man imprisoned on Goli Otok as an enemy of the regime
~ Philip Roth