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This paper attempts to demonstrate that any act of resistance is linked to sovereignty, which is an indispensable element of unity within a community, an absolute power which lays down the law or breaks it. Two forms of sovereignty are opposed: that of the powerful man and that of the resistant. The resistant, sovereign, must have abnormal and transgressive skills at his disposal and be an “outsider.” He is always a member of a collectivity. Everyone can have access to sovereignty. One often thinks that resistance is linked to the possibility of the sacrifice and the hope of a better world. On the contrary, this paper sheds light on the characteristics of courage (which has no link to sacrifice) and the definitive dismissal of any hope. The resistant is the one who sided with life. Is this the case of the reader?