Quotes About Resistance

Individuality, therefore, harbours its own enemy at home.'2

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.

The odds are loaded toward a path of least resistance in several ways. We often choose a path because it is the only one we see. When I get on an elevator, for example, I turn and face front along with everyone else. It rarely occurs to me to do it any other way, such as facing the rear. If I did, I'd soon feel how some paths bring on more social resistance than others.

Dios Todopoderoso, no me dejéis sucumbir a la tentación que tengo de cometer una falta. Espíritus buenos que me protegéis, desviad de mí este pensamiento malo y dadme fuerza para resistir a la sugestión del mal. Si sucumbo, habré merecido la expiación de mi falta, tanto en esta vida como en la otra, porque soy libre de elegir.

Se ha visto, bajo la influencia de ciertos médiums, aparecer manos teniendo todas las propiedades de manos vivientes que tienen calor, que se pueden tocar, que ofrecen la resistencia de un cuerpo sólido que os agarran, y que de repente se desvanecen como una sombra.

You make me feel. And sometimes, I don't want to.

I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.

He's like the door of a bank safe- all big and hard and shinny and tempting, but impossible to get through.

You're still running." "He's right, you know." Kat stopped at the sound of the voice. Her hand was on the doorknob, freedom just inches away, but it was like she'd forgotten how to unlock a door when she turned around and saw Hale sitting alone at the top of the stairs.

No cell phones?" Macey said as if we'd just told her all students were required to shave their heads and live on bread and water.

Mustn't. Damn, Braden had met a woman who used mustn't in everyday conversation. Did she say other sexy words, like shan't? How about something big, like wherewithal? Braden, I shan't resist your commands, and I have the wherewithal to ride your cock all night. Oh, yeah. And Ky thought libraries were boring?

But still they turn from it, all of them, and bat their wings against their own impossible dreams.

No hace tanto tiempo, en este mismo barrio, la felicidad era también una manera de resistir.

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Ascend, may you find so resistance Just know that you made such a difference All you leave behind will live to the end The cycle of suffering goes on But memories of you stay strong Some day I too will fly and find you again

Building a better mousetrap isn't always rewarded when the mice have a say in the matter

Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul's immortality is the only true immortality—

Ever, if I've learned nothing else in my six hundred years of living, it's that people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

I lay sweating, shaking, doing my best to quell the overwhelming need--to extinguish the dark flame inside me. A flame that burns brighter, hotter, stronger each day. A fire so insatiable it'll consume everything in its path.

people hate change almost as much as they hate for their beliefs to be challenged.

The rebel leader and the priest.

I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them

Peu glorieuse, la fuite ? C'est pourtant mieux que de se laisser attraper. Le seul déshonneur, c'est de ne pas être libre.