Quotes About Resistance

It's impossible for a person to retaliate against the government," Madden said. "But you can retaliate against the wildlife that the government is trying to protect. It is a symbolic retaliation. It's a 'Screw you' psychological retaliation.

was tugging now. But, while

The thoughtless person playing with penicillin treatment is morally responsible for the death of the man who finally succumbs to infection with the penicillin-resistant organism. I hope this evil can be averted. —SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING, MD

to stop the Fire Nation

the 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

He was the ultimate antiliberal: an authoritarian who was the living embodiment of resistance to authority.

resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for.

fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies.

The first word Palestinian schoolchildren learn in their reading primers is jihad.

The limitation of tyrants is the endurance of those they oppose." —Frederick Douglass

They cannot see that our sociological assumption is that such systems must not be allowed to exist, no matter the real or perceived benefits. They are continuing to attempt to fix what we consider unfixable and have abandoned.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

Chacun d'entre nous a beau avoir une certaine capacité de résistance on finit tous par mourir d'amour, ou plutôt d'absence d'amour, c'est au bout du compte inéluctablement mortel.

Bloy was the ultimate weapon against the twentieth century, its mediocrity, its moronic 'engagement,' its cloying humanitarianism; against Sartre, and Camus, and all their political playacting; and against all those sickening formalists, the nouveau roman, the pointless absurdity of it all.

All societies have their points of least resistance, their sore spots. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard.

Bruno ochi È™i arunc? din toate puterile. Piatra se sf?râm? de zid, ratând de puÈ›in capul reptilei. — ?erpii au locul lor în natur?..., observ? Hipiotul-C?runt cu o anume severitate. — Natura, ah! M? È™terg la cur cu ea, b?trâne! M? cac în freza ei! Bruno era din nou furios. — Natur? de c?cat... M? fut în ea de natur?!... morm?i el furios timp de vreo câteva minute.

Even more, they cannot play this role in front of another being. And yet they ought to be able to do so: for this dissolution of being is a tragic dissolution; and we all continue, moved by a painful nostalgia, to ask the other for what we ourselves can no longer be; to seek, like a blinded phantom, this weight of being that we no longer find within ourselves. This resistance, this permanence; this depth. Of course, everyone fails, and the loneliness is excruciating.

Bantu Philosophy: People cling to life and are not yet at the stage where they wil fight for the quality of that life. They feel as long as they are surviving, that is enough.

Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily. For seventy-five years, from 1885 to 1960, Congo's population had marinated in humiliation. No malevolent witch-doctor could have devised a better preparation for the coming of a second Great Dictator.

Cruzimea n-are rost unde-i iubire si nici puterea unde-i umilinta; blandetea-nvinge orice-mpotrivire, ca veseli orice suferinta.

Our enemies weren't about to give us even an inch.

not standing there and taking it, being subservient to and trying to gain the acceptance of the bully. It means fighting back.