Quotes About Resistance

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win.

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!

Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators, and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.

No chance. It'd be like cutting off our hands." "Then learn to live without your hands." "No, because then we won't be able to do this," Ben says, giving him the finger [...]

But you're almost eighteen. You're old enough. Everyone else is doing it. And next year someone is going to say to someone else 'but you're only sixteen, everyone else is doing it' Or one day someone will tell your daughter that she's only thirteen and everyone else is doing it. I don't want to do it because everyone else is doing it.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke

Woman, I'm trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.

He remembers the times they'd walk toward him in the playground with that same look on their faces, but double in number with Siobhan and Tara. "It's the four horsewomen of the apocalypse," Jimmy Hailler would say. "They're going to make us do something we don't want to do." "We're not going to give in," Tom would say. But they did. Always.

people hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.

But I want to give in to it sometimes

if people are resistant to education and cling to their varying whims, they are likely to swarm around a charismatic figure and thereby risk letting democracy mutate into tyranny.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?

He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He'd offered her hope, but then he was trying to hurt her. Poison. She pushed him away. "That wasn't nice.

The devil didn't tempt with easy rewards; he tempted with the things one wanted the most.