Quotes About Resistance

Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance." In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.

The truth is their enemy,

Giving in to terrorism will yield more terrorism, because it works.

We set ourselves to achieve a society which would be maximally-tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally-intolerant society. It also, and more importantly, paralyzes our powers of resistance to them.

Our agony was the government's triumph.

With my nose buried in the floorboards, I reflected that, in such situations, there are three kinds of people: those who stand in front of a tank and dare it to run over them, like the guy in Tiananmen Square; those who make brave speeches behind the barricades, like the students in Paris in 1968; and those, like me, who chew dirt.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

Grafton, Massachusetts, in early 1842, while working solo, Douglass was met by mob hostility in addition to an unwelcoming clergy. So he went to a hotel and borrowed a "dinner-bell, with which in hand I passed through the principal streets," he recalled, "ringing the bell and crying out, 'Notice! Frederick Douglass, recently a slave, will lecture on American Slavery, on Grafton Common, this evening at 7 o'clock."13

morning, they were forced to lift her up and carry her there. Myrtle refused to walk even though it

safety net against the temptations of the world.

He welcomed us inside and I decided on the spot that I wasn't doing it, never, ever, ever. But John went in and then the dog and then the fluffy kittens, and at that point I didn't really have a choice.

You know what helps? A warm glass of go fuck yourself.

Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.

No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

The Establishment Won't Be Satisfied Until They Have Turned Us All Into Plato's Cavemen

Don't Go With The Flow. The Powers That Be Turn The Taps

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

The road to utopia is paved with the corpses of freedom lovers

Like all revolutionary new ideas, the subject has had to pass through three stages, which may be summed up by these reactions: (1) "It's crazy—don't waste my time." (2) "It's possible, but it's not worth doing." (3) "I always said it was a good idea." —Arthur C. Clarke

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

English and Americans joining together in a spirit of 'screw you' to their respective governments," she says with a grin.

Nobody, but nobody, is going to get our guns, even if it means burying most of them in the ground and taking a final stand with our legs spread wide and our favorite firing power nestled in our arms.

I'll eat rabbit pellets before you get me into something pink with ruffles.

I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.