Quotes About Resistance

Change is the ultimate truth whether its people or time so instead of resisting change you should adapt it and utilise it to climb the mountain of success in life.

I can break a hundred youths and send their bodies back to wailing mothers. I will tear your entails and eat them for my lunch. I fixed my gaze on his. "Try," I said.

few of these, so few I can count them on my fingers, I let go. They did not see me as their dinner. They were pious men, honestly lost, and I would feed them, and if there was a handsome one among them I might take him to my bed.

Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk

Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.

What's the good of resisting temptation? There'll always be more.

I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.

tired of hearing that the most resistance one could muster in a Foucauldian universe was to work the trap one is inevitably in.

She then leans over and thrusts the edge of the letter into the sconce burning on the wall of the stairwell. For a second or two, it seems the flame cannot believe its luck, refusing to consume the page. Then it comes to its senses, asserting its grasp, turning the edges of the paper black, shrivelling and devouring them.

She wouldn't let them take Hugo. They had to prise him from her. It took her father and a man they'd got from somewhere. Her mother stood by the window until it was all over.

and she picked up the glass from the table and she threw it to the floor, smash. I sat tight on the chair. She stamped her foot, like Rumpelstiltskin, and shouted, I will not go, I will not, you can't make me, I hate him, I despise him.

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms.

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

Not to believe in evil is not to be armed against it.

On the other side of the coin—Lucifer's side—the belief that he does not exist at all is an enormous advantage that he has never enjoyed to such a great degree. It is the ultimate camouflage. Not to believe in evil is not to be armed against it. To disbelieve is to be disarmed. If your will does not accept the existence of evil, you are rendered incapable of resisting evil. Those with no capacity of resistance become prime targets for Possession. Just

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Never forget," a Stranger said to me once in the lobby of the Midland Hotel in Manchester, "that only dead fish swim with the stream.