Resistance Quotes
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![Karl Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865402i/7084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Eleven Theses on Feuerbach
![Lauren Oliver](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1416335442i/2936493._UX200_CR0,43,200,200_.jpg)
“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear.
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
― Delirium
I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.”
― Delirium
![Malcolm X](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185201379i/17435._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
![Ursula K. Le Guin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1244291425i/874602._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Michel Foucault](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615574150i/1260._UY200_CR2,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
![Assata Shakur](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233015380i/57925.jpg)
“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.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
![Henrik Ibsen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1286731403i/2730977._UX200_CR0,48,200,200_.jpg)
“You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
― An Enemy of the People
― An Enemy of the People
![Susan Sontag](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615556608i/7907._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.”
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
― At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
![Dan Millman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1327194022i/1539._UY200_CR34,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ”
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![Margaret Atwood](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1282859073i/3472._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.”
― The Handmaid’s Tale
― The Handmaid’s Tale
![Terry Eagleton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238169688i/10283._UX200_CR0,35,200,200_.jpg)
“After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
![Naomi Shulman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1485092114i/7502127._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
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![Martin Luther King Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1198518558i/23924._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“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.”
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![Ulrike Marie Meinhof](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1274566090i/348054._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.”
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![Edward W. Said](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1518095868i/16770310._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg)
“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”
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![Tiffany Madison](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1336095875i/3398537._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.”
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![Steven Pressfield](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1298914893i/867._UY200_CR15,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
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![Seth Godin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1355799076i/1791._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.
The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe.
The lizard brain will fight (to the death) if it has to, but would rather run away. It likes a vendetta and has no trouble getting angry.
The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks, because status in the tribe is essential to its survival.
A squirrel runs around looking for nuts, hiding from foxes, listening for predators, and watching for other squirrels. The squirrel does this because that's all it can do. All the squirrel has is a lizard brain.
The only correct answer to 'Why did the chicken cross the road?' is 'Because it's lizard brain told it to.' Wild animals are wild because the only brain they posses is a lizard brain.
The lizard brain is not merely a concept. It's real, and it's living on the top of your spine, fighting for your survival. But, of course, survival and success are not the same thing.
The lizard brain is the reason you're afraid, the reason you don't do all the art you can, the reason you don't ship when you can. The lizard brain is the source of the resistance.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe.
The lizard brain will fight (to the death) if it has to, but would rather run away. It likes a vendetta and has no trouble getting angry.
The lizard brain cares what everyone else thinks, because status in the tribe is essential to its survival.
A squirrel runs around looking for nuts, hiding from foxes, listening for predators, and watching for other squirrels. The squirrel does this because that's all it can do. All the squirrel has is a lizard brain.
The only correct answer to 'Why did the chicken cross the road?' is 'Because it's lizard brain told it to.' Wild animals are wild because the only brain they posses is a lizard brain.
The lizard brain is not merely a concept. It's real, and it's living on the top of your spine, fighting for your survival. But, of course, survival and success are not the same thing.
The lizard brain is the reason you're afraid, the reason you don't do all the art you can, the reason you don't ship when you can. The lizard brain is the source of the resistance.”
― Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
![Wally Lamb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1380325783i/3505._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too.” And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least resistance.”
― We Are Water
― We Are Water
“I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.”
― Things We Couldn't Say
― Things We Couldn't Say
![A.C. Crispin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1300121737i/61277._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.”
― Time for Yesterday
― Time for Yesterday
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