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Quotes About Resistance

Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.
~ Rob Bell
The way to free yourself from any system of control is to do something useless. But do it as well as you can!
~ Rob Davis
our resistance to the inevitable pain of life is what really causes us to suffer, not the pain itself.
~ Rob Nairn
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will";
~ Robert A. Caro
From a May 1, 2004 article entitled "Still Up to Mischief" from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman ] Still, it's worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of the most powerful institutions - church and army, both. He is an atheist, 'And I have been against all of these wars ever since.
~ Robert Altman
On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight.
~ Robert B. Cialdini
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. —LEONARDO DA VINCI
~ Robert B. Cialdini
Freedoms once granted will not be relinquished without a fight. The
~ Robert B. Cialdini
How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.
~ Robert B. Parker
people with the most to lose from genuine social change have put themselves in charge of social change.
~ Robert B. Reich
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
~ Robert Browning
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
~ Robert Byrne
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.
~ Robert Byrne
Resisting premature abstraction is as important as abstraction itself.
~ Robert C. Martin
The capitalist elements, kulaks included, would naturally resist the offensive in all ways open to them.
~ Robert C. Tucker
Political beliefs, religious beliefs, and conspiratorial beliefs seem impenetrable to facts that contradict them.
~ Robert Carroll
Accept the fact that sometimes coincidences happen. Clouds sometimes look like horses and clocks sometimes stop for no reason. Resist the urge to find meaning and significance everywhere you look.
~ Robert Carroll
Finch refused to discuss these ideas and didn't brook criticism from his colleagues, much less from a mere photographer. What must it be like, Guilford wondered, to have such a baroque architecture crammed inside one's skull? Such a strange cathedral, so well buttressed, so well defended?
~ Robert Charles Wilson
It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
it is hard to be angry or defensive with someone who seems to agree with your opinions and tastes. Charmers may appear to be weaker than their targets but in the end they are the more powerful side because they have stolen the ability to resist.
~ Robert Greene
actively rebel against those forces that have pushed you away from your true path.
~ Robert Greene
Your first task as a strategist is to widen your concept of the enemy, to include in that group those who are working against you, thwarting you, even in subtle ways.
~ Robert Greene
En la vida diaria todo es prisa e improvisación, y tú debes ofrecer algo diferente. Si te tomas tu tiempo y respetas el proceso de la seducción, no sólo quebrarás la resistencia de tu víctima, sino que también la enamorarás.
~ Robert Greene