Quotes About Resistance

I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.

I call death onto those who don't know a child when they see a child. Men who think they made the world out of clay and turned it into their safe place, men who think a woman wouldn't flip the universe over and flatten them beneath it. I have enough bullets for all of them.

War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

Some kind of philosophical mission, something that would push back, if only for a moment, against the inescapable nihilism of this place.

Sometimes I open a book that's so beautiful I have to shut it because it hurts me. I can't stand it. It's like, Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! This is going to drive me into my own heart. A day or two days later I'm saying, All right, and I just surrender to it: Do it to me. Go ahead. I want it. I don't want it. I want it. I don't want it.

To resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself.

Nikdo nem?že ?lov?ka donutit, aby se zm?nil. Každý z nás st?eží bránu ke zm?nám, kterou lze otev?ít pouze zevnit?.

As Jess watched in numb horror, the man tore a page from the book and stuffed it into his mouth.

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move. So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

If your homeland were invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

My mind says one thing, but my body says another. Thanks a lot, Indian food and beer.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul's immortality is the only true immortality—

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.