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#resistance

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The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.


Karl Marx


#change #ideology #philosophy #resistance #struggle

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.


Susan Sontag


#change #resistance #society #trial #change

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#love #resistance #strength #weakness #love

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.


Wayne White


#failures #magnitude #nobody #our #part

In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli, as far as you could see from place de la Concorde, there were enormous swastika banners five or six floors high. I just thought, This is impossible. Imagine that someone comes into your home—someone you don’t like—he settles down, gives orders: “Here we are, we’re at home now; you must obey.” To me that was unbearable.


Pearl Witherington Cornioley


#nazism #world-war-ii #home

Paralyze resistance with persistence.


Woody Hayes


#persistence #resistance

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.


Hal Holbrook


#cause #developed #discipline #i #learned

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.


Pol Pot


#clear #conscience #did #i #join

I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.


Juliet Marillier


#resistance #anger

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.


Diet Eman


#holocaust #jesus-christ #prison #resistance #righteous






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