74 Quotes Tagged: resistance

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.

Resistance is vain in any case; it only leads to useless struggle while inviting grief and sorrow.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

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

The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance.

This second, we can sit down and do our work.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

Resistance is the most toxic force on the planet.

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

And, impossible though it may be, we will have to resist partisanship. The only way back to a free society, to a country where no one need fear the president’s wrath or impulses, is to unwind the factionalism that has helped destroy this country. We have to forge a new coalition on right and left to resist fascism’s reach and cultic power. In a country which just elected and re-elected a black president — whose grace feels now almost painful to recall — it is surely possible.