Quotes About Resistance

Strong cultures are vigorously and widely supported, and they are difficult to change.

The result of being colonized is the internalization of the need to remain invisible.

People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.

I just liked it better when Mr. Andreeson was the enemy, I complained finally.

Certain it is that Socrates makes very radical proposals of "reform" without encountering serious resistance. But there are also a few indications in the Republic to the effect that the longed-for reformation is not likely to succeed on the political plane or that the only possible reformation is that of the individual man.

Johann Clement watched the blows fall. First there had been wild talk and then printed accusations and insinuations. Then came a boycott of Jewish business and professional people, then the public humiliations: beatings and beard pullings. Then came the night terror of the Brown Shirts. Then came the concentration camps. Gestapo, SS, SD, KRIPO, RSHA. Soon every family in Germany was under Nazi scrutiny, and the grip of tyranny tightened until the last croak of defiance strangled and died.

Jossi had been slow in agreeing with Ben Yehuda and the others. Hebrew had to be revived. If the desire for national identity was great enough a dead language could be brought back. But Sarah was set in her ways. Yiddish was what she spoke and what her mother had spoken. She had no intention of becoming a scholar so late in life.

If you remember nothing else, remember this. No crime a man commits in behalf of his freedom can be as great as the crimes committed by those who deny his freedom.

He could not bear the thought of training, not only because of the effort he could never summon from himself now, but also because the idea of fighting was disorienting in its repugnance. He felt that everyone at the Lido Gym was insane. One

Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrödinger's departure, "since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die

On an emotional level many people resist the idea that random influences are important even if, on an intellectual level, they understand that they are.

Poetry to [Milosz], then, was not so much a weapon as a witness against evil.

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.

Adiós a ti del ruso sucia patria nación de encomenderos y de esclavos. Adiós a esas guerreras azuladas. Adiós al pueblo por ellas maniatado. Quizá yo, tras el Cáucaso erguido, esconderme podré de los tiranos, de su ojo que todo lo registra, de su oído que nada escucha en vano.

If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .

And ever since that, the Hatter went on in a mournful tone, He wo'n't do a thing I ask! It's always six o'clock now.

Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do – some don't ever want to

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Before the Devil breaks you, first he will make you love him. Beware, little sister. Beware the King of Crows!

Gemma, you see how it is. They've planned our entire lives, from what we shall wear to whom we shall marry and where we shall live. It's one lump of sugar in your tea whether you like it or not and you'd best smile even if you're dying deep inside. We're like pretty horses, and just as on horses, they mean to put blinders on us so we can't look left or right but only straight ahead where they would lead. Please, please, please, Gemma, let's not die inside before we have to.

When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear

don't. I don't know about you, but if I'm gonna be chained to a rock by the gods, I'd rather go out as the person who brought fire back from the mountain than as a pure princess who didn't have the sense to say to everyone, "Oh, hell no, you are not sacrificing me to some sea monster!