Quotes About Resistance

Once a person becomes a government dependent, his moral standing to resist the expansion of government power is fatally compromised.

Go and try to start your own government in the United States today and you'll be squashed very quickly.

Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

A hated government does not long survive.

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

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

I have great faith in the millennials and in what they understand about social media, and how they're going to be able to counter fascist forces as they come.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness

The duration of a couple's passion is in proportion to the woman's original resistance or to the obstacles that social hazards have placed in the way of her happiness.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.