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Quotes About Resistance

If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.
~ Isobelle Carmody
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
~ Italo Calvino
Aç?k konu?al?m: Her rejim, hatta en otoriter olan bile de?i?ken bir denge durumunda ayakta kalabilir, bu nedenle kendi bask? donan?m?n?n varl???n? sürekli olarak hakl? göstermesi gerekir ve bask? uygulayacak bir ?eylere gereksinme duyar.
~ Italo Calvino
Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!' -'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde. -'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.
~ Italo Calvino
I would distinguish two attitudes which were both present in me and in the reality surrounding me: one was the Resistance as a highly legal act against Fascist subversion and violence; the other was the Resistance as a revolutionary and subversive act, as something passionately identified with the rebellion of the eternally oppressed and outlawed.
~ Italo Calvino
I sogni dei partigiani sono rari e corti, sogni nati dalle notti di fame, legati alla storia del cibo sempre poco e da dividere in tanti: sogni di pezzi di pane morsicati e poi chiusi in un cassetto
~ Italo Calvino
Let's be frank: every regime, even the most authoritarian, survives in a situation of unstable equilibrium, whereby it needs to justify constantly the existence of its repressive apparatus, therefore of something to repress.
~ Italo Calvino
Just give her your goddamn window seat, for the love of Christ, she's a stone cold fox, whispered the little red devil that always wants to get laid from his perch just behind my left ear.
~ Unknown
In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn.
~ Ivan Illich
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~ Ivan Turgenev
They would beat him and hammer him and drill him. He bobbed, and ducked, and refused to fall. They struck out, as if they were driving nails into him, and with every blow he felt more like himself
~ Unknown
Nesre?a nesre?nih ljudi i jeste u tome što za njih stvari koje su ina?e zabranjene postanu, za trenutak dostižne i lake, ili bar tako izgledaju, a kada se jednom trajno usele u njihove želje, one se pokažu opet kao ono što jesu: nedostupne i zabranjene, sa svim posledicama koje to ima po one koji za njima ipak posegnu.
~ Ivo Andri?
You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.
~ Unknown
New Jerusalem is found wherever human community resists the ways of empire and places God at the center of its shared life."27
~ Unknown
He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs.
~ Unknown
If we want to make the antisocial turn in queer theory we must be willing to turn away from the comfort zone of polite exchange in order to embrace a truly political negativity, one that promises, this time, to fail, to make a mess, to fuck shit up, to be loud, unruly, impolite, to breed resentment, to bash back, to speak up and out, to disrupt, assassinate, shock, and annihilate.
~ Unknown
This is the history of un-art—the cultural productions that are not intended to convey beauty, not organized around the notion of singular genius expres- sion, not designed to sooth audiences and to confirm the order of things. Un-art comes to unmake worlds.
~ Unknown
They're evacuating the younger kids and everyone's meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We're fighting.
~ J. K. Rowling
Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
~ J. K. Rowling
DUMBLEDORE'S ARMY, STILL RECRUITING.
~ J. K. Rowling
People who say no to upgrades will end up in caravan parks and wild places.
~ J. M. Ledgard
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
The Singing Revolution
~ Unknown
When I go to prayer," confessed an eminent Christian, "I find my heart so loath to go to God, and when it is with Him, so loath to stay." Then he pointed to the need for self-discipline. "When you feel most indisposed to pray, yield not to it," he counseled, "but strive and endeavor to pray, even when you think you cannot.
~ J. Oswald Sanders