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Resistance |
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Quotations
 | Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 23 likes |
 | You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 21 likes |
 | A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 14 likes |
 | A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 12 likes |
| You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 7 likes |
 | It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 6 likes |
 | The path of least resistance is what makes rivers run crooked. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
 | What you resist, persists. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 5 likes |
 | I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 4 likes |
 | Resist much, obey little. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 4 likes |
 | It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
 | We have to knock, knock on our destiny, to open the door, to escape! — Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer 1 likes |
 | There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. — Robert Lowell, 1917-1977, American poet 1 likes |
 | The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Thus always to tyrants! Sic semper tyrannis! — Motto of the state of Virginia (a rallying cry against abuse of power) 21 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | I don't know what it is, but I am against it. — from the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 9 likes |
