Resistance Quotes

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws...

But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, h...

The Mayor spoke proudly. 'Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir...

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marl...

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

She was not stunned, the way I was. In some strange way she was gleeful, as if this was what she had...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

Danny explained, “Reforms always create winners and losers, and the losers will always fight harder ...

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting i...

Where there is power, there is resistance.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience...

We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we ...

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the a...

The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe....

Pain is the hammer of the Gods to break a dead resistance in the mortal's heart

There wasn't in the beginning. It wasn't until your kind discovered what was happening that any resi...

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the ol...

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from actin...

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the in...

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be alwa...

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims ...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human powe...

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really ...

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the governm...

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Let us seek the respite where it is—in the very thick of battle. For in my opinion, and this is wher...

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to wi...

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has eve...

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for i...

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humo...

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to wh...

While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing ...

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this wo...

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumptio...

So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and...

This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it ...

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim pl...

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels.""Its own grave-diggers," he said."B...

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea th...

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman...

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the tr...

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably a...

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and res...

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn ...

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can supp...

What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we...