Resistance quotations

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◆ I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.

- Lierre Keith98

◆ This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing.

- Derrick Jensen98

◆ Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry98

◆ When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe98

◆ There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.

- David T. Dellinger98

◆ Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

- Tom Althouse98

◆ An Widerst?nden zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es.

- Horace98

◆ Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

- Tom Althouse98

◆ Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has produced a countervailing conviction that educating, organizing, uniting, and acting will make a difference.

- David T. Dellinger98

◆ There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.

- Herbert M. Shelton98

◆ You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

- Bryant McGill98

◆ As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.)

- Christopher Hitchens98

◆ I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.

- John Steinbeck98

◆ Jazz and vodka, the fuel of resistance.

- Rawi Hage98