Quotes About Resistance

I DON'T WANT YOUR GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!" I yelled to the figure behind the door.

I DON'T WANT YOUR GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!" I yelled to the figure behind the door. He

In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

History teaches us, however, that when the times are ripe for change and the government refuses or is unable to change, either society starts to decay or a revolution begins.

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

He felt an overwhelming sense of brokenness in the people. The country had been under the colonial government for over two decades, and no one could see an end in sight. It felt like everyone had given up.

I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat.

Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say. You can calmly say, 'Can I first call my mom and ask if I have to do this, please?

This arcane system has been in place, unchanged, for over a hundred years. It contains no procedure for modification, no avenue for improvement or reform. Complaining or resisting is taboo. As noted, I had been trying to initiate changes in the system since I was fifteen. To no avail.

Our imaginations are in thrall to the institutions of oppression.

No words to tell my students about that, or the children taken away, or the threats of violence. No way to say, Any woman who steps outside the confines of womanhood will be called a lesbian.

I always had to resist the urge to go to him like a wife, as if we'd already been a couple for a hundred thousand lifetimes.

Not everyone has to be literate, there are some great reasons for resisting language, and one of them is love.

Each word he said was boring, but collectively the melody of them lulled me. I tried to resist, but just the weight of him, in pounds and ounces, was a relief. Always being the heaviest person in the house had been exhausting. I sipped my tea and leaned back into the couch. When he left I would have to shift the weight back onto my own shoulders again, but that was a problem for later.

Any program that your mind interprets as punishment is one your mind is bound to rebel against.

Ja sam, vidite, zgažen. Zašto? Zato jer sam se usudio usprotiviti ljudskoj gluposti...

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make 'em think.

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

To those who accept everything, happiness. To those who resist everything, glory.

I bet your mom would let me." -Pigeon, Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus-

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.