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“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.”

“Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.”

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

“Resistance to what amounts to a technological religious cult being orchestrated through the very technology those in power want to meld us with, must become a love story for our time. Defiance against our enslavement to a mechanised life, and protection of the children who will inhabit this earth and hopefully their bodies after we're gone, should fuel exhilaration not despair. We have but one life and if we use it to help each other, then failure is impossible.”

“Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.”

“Resistence takes place on many planes. Occasionally it can be dramatic and public, but most of the decisions we are faced with are mundane and private. What to eat is a choice that we make several times a day, if we are lucky. The cumulative choices we make about food have profound implications. Food offers us many opportunities to resist the culture of mass marketing and commodification. Though consumer action can take many creative and powerful forms, we do not have to be reduced to the role of consumers selecting from seductive convenience items. We can merge appetite with activism and choose to involve ourselves in food as cocreators. (Page 27)”

“Resistenza, alla radice, deve significare qualcosa di più di semplice resistenza alla guerra. Si tratta di resistenza a qualsiasi cosa somigli alla guerra [...]. Allora, forse, resistenza significa opposizione: non lasciarsi invadere, occupare, assassinare e distruggere dal sistema. Lo scopo della resistenza, in questo caso, è cercare di guarire sé stessi in modo da imparare a vedere con chiarezza [...]. Io credo che le comunità di resistenza dovrebbero essere luoghi dove ritornare più facilmente a sé stessi, luoghi che permettano a ognuno di guarire e recuperare la propria dignità.”

“Resistere. Nessun singolo istante di quel dolore era insopportabile. Eccolo qua un secondo: lo aveva sopportato. Insopportabile era il pensiero di tutti gli istanti in fila, uno dietro l'altro, splendenti. E la proiezione della paura futura [...]. Ma niente di tutto questo è vero, ora. [...] Poteva accovacciarsi nello spazio tra due battiti del cuore e fare di ogni battito un muro e vivere là dentro. Non permettere alla sua testa di guardare sopra il muro. La cosa insopportabile è cosa ne penserebbe la sua testa. Cosa potrebbe raccontargli la sua testa se guardasse al di là del muro. Ma potrebbe scegliere di non ascoltarla.”

“Resisting him has made the buildup to this more explosive. His tongue, his lips, his mouth seeking mine, it’s as natural and inevitable as magnets finding each other. I tried to be strong, I tried to hold back, but I know now it would’ve been impossible to keep up forever. His back hits the door. Our tongues tangle, and there’s no hesitance on his part. He dives in fully, and he tastes the same as I remember but better.”

“Resistirse a la humillación es algo completamente natural. Retrocedemos ante las experiencias humillantes porque atentan contra nuestra dignidad (que es otra manera de decir que hieren nuestro orgullo). Esa es la clave del problema. Entonces nos vendrá bien recordar quiénes somos nosotros realmente y quién es Dios. Si detrás de esa experiencia solo vemos el daño y lo desagradable del hecho, únicamente puede ser porque hemos perdido de vista, al menos momentáneamente, la voluntad de Dios y su providencia. Porque las humillaciones nacen de las circunstancias, de los acontecimientos y de la gente que Dios nos pone delante cada día; y todas esas cosas no son sino manifestaciones de su providencia. De ahí que debamos aprender a descubrir en todo ello, incluso en las humillaciones, ocasiones para una mayor conformidad con la voluntad de Dios.”