Quotes About Resistance

Most of us are great with change, as long it was our idea. But change imposed from the outside can send some people into a tailspin. - Myrna Landers

Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse.

truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

The others said they wanted to get better, but I think, and this isn't popular in psychology circles' - here she leaned forward and whispered, conspiratorially - 'I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.

What happened when you gave in to temptation. When you listened to the fallen angels of your nature.

I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing

Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse." Gamache shook his head.

And the enemy you'll be fighting is yourself.

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up...but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that.

How many times do we all have to do this? Get up, go to school, again? Before everyone admits it's a crap idea?

There can be no doubt that this resistance to killing one's fellow man is there and that it exists as a result of a powerful combination of instinctive, rational, environmental, hereditary, cultural, and social factors. It is there, it is strong, and it gives us cause to believe that there just may be hope for mankind after all.

Everywhere risk and defiance weave through the most mundane daily affairs.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

The effort mined a core of dizziness inside him. He resisted it, but then realizing that there was nothing attractive about consciousness, nothing he cared to know about the someone in charge of death and butterflies, he let himself go spiraling down past layers of darkness and shining wings, darkness and mystical light, and a memory of pain so bright that it became a white darkness wherein he lost all track of being.

Any great change must expect opposition because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.

Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

overcome some of the most common objections to implementing change: 'I don't know where to start' and 'I don't have time'.

Oh, working man! Oh, starved, outraged, and robbed laborer, how long will you lend attentive ear to the authors of your misery?

The overseer's whip is now fully supplanted by the lash of hunger! And the auction block by the chain-gang and convict cell

If the great body of the people have clamored for our comrades' blood, it was because they believed what the lying monopolistic press has said.

a "strike," which means a resistance on the part of the oppressed toward the oppressor—a protest, as it were

History always catches up with rebels".

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic.