Quotes About Resistance

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie.

Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.

This machine kills fascists.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house

They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

[T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism.

If you are facing some kind of temptation, remember that it is within your power to get the victory over it.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power

They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are.""Well, good, " I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.

We can't just sit on our asses and not live our lives while we're trying to expose a corrupt government.

Power isn't the big cars and bent slavesPower is your people in the streets as they drag you to prison.

Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant

If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.