Quotes About Resistance

There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

I'm always resisting [my muse]. I'm resisting her power.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you.

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

No, I'm too busy trying to deflect your Power of Stupidity. But I don't think I'm strong enough.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Sectors of power are not going to favor the flourishing of dissidence.

Stop being a consumer, fight the power!

He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.