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Joe BidenIt behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas JeffersonThere’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
Joe BidenWeight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.
Leonardo da VinciThe trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry PratchettThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.
Oscar WildeI think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
Christopher HitchensResistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.
Noam ChomskyThe last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.
Tom BradyPeoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel CastroI venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund BurkeThe atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George OrwellThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
James BaldwinI truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BonoIf a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
Isaac NewtonThe most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.
Mr. TI try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.
Taylor SwiftI never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard ShawIn a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack ObamaI do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson MandelaI had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. ColeI think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.
Alice WalkerPolitically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
Alice WalkerI didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne WestwoodThe walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey NewtonSeptember 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.
Noam ChomskyThe Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
Fidel CastroNothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
Lao TzuThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas JeffersonWe gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.
Christopher HitchensThe U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill GatesIt’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da VinciI’m mainstream.
The WeekndPeople crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund BurkeRegimes planted by bayonets do not take root.
Ronald ReaganI’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.
Clint EastwoodThe very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
Benjamin DisraeliI don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.
Tom BradyWe live in ugly times.
David ByrneAll impeachments, I guess, are political.
John KennedyI have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
Kurt CobainI’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.
Clint EastwoodIt’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry SeinfeldYou may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
John RuskinFrom behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. EisenhowerAt fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya AngelouI have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Thomas JeffersonThe lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.
Fidel CastroResistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Carl JungCuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.
Noam ChomskyWe’re news junkies in my house.
Stephen KingThe world is too violent right now.
Jackie ChanI live in a crazy time.
Anne FrankRebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin FranklinI pay attention to politics and technology.
Nipsey HussleSolidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
Christopher HitchensThere will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey NewtonMankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Thomas JeffersonIf we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin