Quotes About Resistance

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated.

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

We look at each other a second. " I'm tired of the rules, " I say. Aibileen chuckles and looks out the window. I realise how thin this revelation must sound to her.

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!