Quotes About Resistance

Such constant irreconcilable enemies to science are the common people.

nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

E, no dia em que ele fugiu, em inúmeros lares, na hora pobre do jantar, rostos se iluminaram ao saber da notícia. E, apesar de que lá fora era o terror, qualquer daqueles lares era um lar que se abriria para Pedro Bala, fugitivo da polícia. Porque a revolução é uma pátria e uma família.

intentar escapar de los malos pensamientos es salir a buscarlos.

Panagulis, en 1973, la llevó a una colina del Peloponeso a ver tres letras escritas en la tierra, entre los árboles. Las letras eran OXI (que en griego significa «NO»). Cuenta cómo a pesar del viento y la lluvia, y del intento de los generales por desaparecerla con cal, las tres palabras reaparecían tercamente.

he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising

The encounter and separation, for all its wildness, is typical of the sufferings of love. For when a heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt: "The Fates lead him who will; him who won't, they drag.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

Turn away, if you can. Return you will with hunger peaked and primed.

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

To think is to say no.

Truth is on the march and nothing can stop it.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

Similarly, the more tyrants pillage, the more they crave, the more they ruin and destroy; the more one yields to them, and obeys them, by that much do they become mightier and more formidable, the readier to annihilate and destroy. But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.

Celui qui vous maîtrise tant n'a que deux yeux, n'a que deux mains, n'a qu'un corps, et n'a autre chose que ce qu'a le moindre homme du grand et infini nombre de nos villes, sinon que l'avantage que vous lui faites pour vous détruire.

I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.

From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.

Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all of these poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather passed before their mouths.

But if not one thing is yielded to them, if, without any violence they are simply not obeyed, they become naked and undone and as nothing, just as, when the root receives no nourishment, the branch withers and dies.