“On our crowded planet there are no longer any 'internal affairs.' The Communist leaders say, 'Don't interfere in our internal affairs. Let us strangle our citizens in peace and quiet.' But I tell you: Interfere more and more. Interfere as much as you can. We beg you to come and interfere.”— Aleksandra Zaric, goodreads.com
“At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses the threshold of one's home? An arrest consists of a series of incidental irrelevancies, of a multitude of things that do not matter, and there seems no point in arguing…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Our emotional suffering is caused by our desire for things to be other than they are. The more we resist the fact of what is happening right now, the more we suffer.”— Kristin Neff, amazon.com
“There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.”— Winona LaDuke, analoguechic.com
“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back! We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”— Elizabeth Warren, time.com
“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”— Helen Keller, facebook.com
“Understanding the fabric of resistance is the only way we can unstitch it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The more you fight it, the worse it’s gonna get. It’s like when your car slides on ice, you stir into the skid.”— Tami Sagher, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“Presently a serpent sought them out privately, and came to them walking upright, which was the way of serpents in those days. The serpent said the forbidden fruit would store their vacant minds with knowledge. So they ate it, which was quite natural, for man is so made that he eagerly wants to know;…”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Given that we are already living in what Princeton political scientist Sheldon Wolin calls a soft or inverted totalitarian system, an illiberal democracy, the transformation feared by Sullivan will be welcome, clarifying, a fresh breath of honesty, in which the trappings are tossed aside and the ugl…”— Christopher Ketcham, thedailybeast.com
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”— Steven Pressfield, amazon.com