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Quotes About Resistance

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.
~ Alfred Doblin
Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
~ Immortal Technique
Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.
~ Plutarch
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.
~ William Shakespeare
The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.
~ David Richo
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of 'destiny,' you not only change its 'natural laws' but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.
~ Hannah Arendt
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.
~ Frantz Fanon
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
~ Claude McKay
As long as you are still fighting in defense of your dignity and for your occupied land, all is well.
~ Unknown
Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you
~ Unknown
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
~ Assata Shakur
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
~ Jello Biafra
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
~ John Prine
And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
~ Kathy Acker
Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
~ Patrisse Cullors
You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
~ Edie Adams
But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.
~ William Kunstler
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
~ Anthony Jeselnik