Quotes About Resistance

It's hard enough now, so I won't make it any harder. I want to go out so much—everything seems to be calling to me, 'Anne, Anne, come out to us. Anne, Anne, we want a playmate'—but it's better not. There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there?

He was surrounded by tyrants who thought they had a right to order him about: it was a conspiracy. He could not call his soul his own.

Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one's approach to meeting personal needs will plow headlong into resistance.

There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Wir existieren in einer Schizophrenen Form des sozialen Lebens. Fremde Mächte haben unser normales Leben okkupiert; und genau wie frembe Eroberer die Ureinwohner von Venedig in einen entlegenen Sumpf hinaustrieben, wo sie ihre Stadt auf Pfählen im Wasser bauen mußten, haben die Mächte die uns und unserer Kräfte ausbeuten, uns in eine unfruchtbare Einöde getrieben, die wir Privatleben nennen. (pp. 127-128)

most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

It feels like a victory that we are moving closer to the truth. But when the truth is taking you somewhere you don't want to go, you also aren't sure. You aren't sure you want that win.

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.

El secuestro es una contradicción en un país que nació de la lucha contra la esclavitud"

A total of six thousand Cholultecans perished. Cortés ordered the few priests who survived to wash the floors and walls, to rid the temples of idols and in their place to install crosses and images of the Virgin Mary.

The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.

Almanzo could only look longingly at the eager three-year-olds. He just touched their velvety noses, and then he went quickly away from them, and put on his barn frock over his good school-clothes.

His kisses to her neck were growing hungry and her insides were heating up,but she managed to mutter a terse,I would rather eat my own eyeballs than sit at the table with those bastards.

Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don't want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?

I crossed my arms on my stomach. A psychologist would have said I was closed off, uncommunicative. Fuck them.

Edward: I don't know whether to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la or find more of your guards so we can take bets.

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

It's not about being able to do something, Rocco. It's not even about thinking about doing it. It's not even about being tempted to go too far. [...] It's about deciding not to do it. It's about being tempted but not giving in. It isn't our abilities that make us evil, Sergeant, it's giving in to them.

Thanks, but I don't drink, she said as she ignored his arm and breezed past him. I'm just here to get laid.

Sometimes Richard had the sinking suspicion that he had a far better chance of preventing Bonaparte from conquering Europe than he had of thwarting his mother's plans to see him married off within the next Season.