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Quotes About Resistance

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.
~ Rigoberta Menchu
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
~ Martin Luther
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
~ Edmund Burke
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
~ Samuel Butler
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
~ Walter Bagehot
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
~ Tim Bishop
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
~ James Joyce
The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.
~ Martin Luther
Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.
~ Ben Carson
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.
~ Jack Nicholson
Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.
~ Allen W. Wood
Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires
~ Muhammad Anwar Jalil
Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds
~ Munia Khan
The devil is the most stubborn verisimilitude on earth!
~ Stefan Emunds
How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?
~ M.F. Moonzajer
Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain.
~ Geoffrey Wood
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
~ John Locke
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.
~ L. Neil Smith
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.
~ Howard Zinn
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence.
~ Mahatma Gandhi