"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 (At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches)

"Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change."
— A.C. Crispin (Time for Yesterday #39)

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
— Albert Einstein

" "People don't resist change. They resist being changed." "
— Peter Senge

"Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers. "
— Leon Uris

""Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation...It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.""
— Senator Robert Kennedy

" It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. "
— Leonardo da Vinci

"Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once."
— Virginia Woolf

"I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet"
— Subcomandante Marcos

"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it."
— Woodrow Wilson

"Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall."
— Leon Uris

"An Widerständen zeigt sich das Genie des Generals, Glück verhüllt es."
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus

"'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and the time is nearly up. They think that just because they have only one leader and one head, we are all like that. They know that ten heads lopped off will destroy them, but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.'"
— John Steinbeck

"The Mayor spoke proudly. 'Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but—I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brae man will have made them a little braver.' He smiled apologetically. 'You see, it is an easy thing to do, since the end for me is the same.'

Lanser said, "If you say yes, we can tell them you said no. We can tell them you begged for your life.'

And Winter broke in angrily, 'They would know. You do not keep secrets. One of your men got out of hand one night and he said the flies had conquered the flypaper, and now the whole nation knows his words. They have made a song of it. The flies have conquered the flypaper. You do not keep secrets, Colonel.'"
— John Steinbeck (The Moon Is Down)

"Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed in the latter as an irreducible opposite."
— Michel Foucault (The History of Sexuality: An Introduction)

"The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty."
— Simon Bolivar

"A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong."
— Tecumseh (Shawnee)

"Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable."
— Michel Foucault