Quotes About Resistance

Once a structure exists, energy moves through that structure by the path of least resistance. In other words, energy moves where it is easiest for it to go.

Something there is that doesn't love a wall.

If the stress resulting from trying to resist change could be transformed into energy, we wouldn't have to worry about coming up with alternatives to fossil fuels.

The fact that resistance to modern liberalism is weakening suggests that we are on the road to cultural disaster because, in their final stages, radical egalitarianism becomes tyranny and radical individualism descends into hedonism.

The old Spanish revolutionary slogan, 'un pueblo unido jamás será vencido' ('a people, united, will never be defeated') applies less to the divided countries of the continent than to almost any other.

Eles amaldiçoam e proíbem as minhas palavras todos os dias e todos os seus pensamentos são para me fazer mal... vigiam cada passo que dou, como podem conduzir a minha alma para uma armadilha... obstruem o meu caminho, para que não consiga escapar.

Zeeland coastal towns of Flushing and Sluys against the Spanish, to

A Stanford graduate student told me that his wife and kids resisted going to church on Sundays because they dreaded encounters with a family of braggarts and bullies so much. Then his family switched to an earlier service that the despised family never attended: the student's wife and kids not only stopped resisting and complaining about going to church; everyone came back from church in far better moods. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Someone said, "If the devil can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

Having conditions forced on him, with the threat of destruction clearly the cost of resist­ance, does not constitute a fair definition of accommodation. It is coercion.

Henry David Thoreau, whom Gandhi read, declared, "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." Havel, Gandhi, and Thoreau sought to live out humane truths that challenged the falsehoods imposed upon them by what they perceived as the malignant normality of their societies.

Feminism remains a crucial element of any program for social justice today, which is why patriarchal forces attempt to eliminate or marginalize feminist ideas.

every decent man confronted by a totalitarian regime ought to have the pluck to commit high treason.

All my life I have had this inclination to yield only to gentleness and reason—and to resist all pressure.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

But two things might restrain a man in the Great Debauch: malaria and guard duty.

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

History may be read as the story of the magnificent rearguard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make it easy, but not so much they grew tired of you.

As the struggle continued, Mason abandoned his plan to seize the camp intact for its booty, grabbed a firebrand, and set it aflame. As the eighty closely packed huts, which housed 800 Indians, went up in smoke, the Pequots poured out of the stockade to meet death from English and Narraganset swords and muskets. Others - hundreds of them - remained huddled inside the huts and were burned, women and children, old and young, "in promiscuous ruin." The

We are defined as much by our enemies as we are by our friends,

Saint Anthony the Anchorite?

become a bastion of willful ignorance

When the dawn at last arose, the demon raised my staff to strike again, but I, too, took hold of it. I called upon the Lord to send me strength, and the devil was defeated by a fire from the Heavens. In Christ's name, I bound him then, and kept him prisoner.