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Quotes About Resistance

run, run, you can't get away, the monk can run but the temple will never get away!
~ Mo Yan
Je gardais le silence ou grognais n'importe quoi ; – les mots ne me sortaient plus. Forcément, mon gosier n'était plus apte à former des sons mais exclusivement des pierres. Elles me harcelaient toutes cependant, comme elles harcelaient les autres hommes, ne sachant pas à quoi elles s'exposaient : j'étais prêt à vomir un torrent de pierres. »
~ Mohammed Dib
The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
~ Unknown
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
~ Unknown
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
~ Unknown
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
~ Unknown
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
~ Unknown
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~ Unknown
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
~ Unknown
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
~ Unknown
I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
~ Unknown
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.
~ Unknown
She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself.
~ Mohsin Hamid
cuando las fronteras se vuelven porosas y la población gobernada —o controlada— es más móvil, a las organizaciones establecidas se les complica mantener su dominio.
~ Moisés Naím
Cuando se lleva a cabo la burocratización total de una administración —concluía—, se establece una forma de relación de poder que es prácticamente inquebrantable.»
~ Moisés Naím
He believes the world has entered "an era of perpetual irregular warfare.
~ Moisés Naím
They'd stopped being shrewd worshippers begging for interviews and had become irritating stones in the revolution's shoes.
~ Moisés Naím
Ser opositor no puede ser gratis», le dice uno de sus asesores cubanos,
~ Moisés Naím
Lo que quiero decir no es que la coacción ya no sea posible —basta recordar las masacres en Siria—, sino que se ha vuelto más cara y más difícil de sostener a largo plazo.
~ Moisés Naím
Nadie sobresale. La oposición sigue perdida.
~ Moisés Naím
is how each of them is making power easier to get and harder to use or keep.
~ Moisés Naím
The world will not alter for all your meddling.
~ Moliere
To give good colour to his acts against you;
~ Moliere