Quotes About Resistance

Meanwhile there is still some freedom left in the world. Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

A society, most of whose members spend a great part of their time, not on the spot, not here and now and in the calculable future, but somewhere else, in the irrelevant other worlds of sport and soap opera, of mythology and metaphysical fantasy, will find it hard to resist the encroachments of those who would manipulate and control it.

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability. That's another reason why we're so chary of applying new inventions.

The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad. Ésta es otra razón por la cual nos mostramos tan reacios a aplicar nuevos inventos. Todo descubrimiento de las ciencias puras es potencialmente subversivo; incluso la ciencia debe ser tratada a veces como un enemigo.

Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended—there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays.

But the nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upo them, tend to acquire a taste for more. Lead us not into temptation, we pray--and with good reason; for when human beings are tempted too enticingly or too long, they generally yield.

Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

When captured and brought to trial, many of those who had taken part in the Sabbath resolutely refused, even under torture, even at the stake, to abjure the religion which had brought them so much happiness.

Every change is a menace to stability.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad.

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Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended -- there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. But there aren't any wars nowadays. The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving any one too much.

The mental climate of our age is not favorable to visionaries.

As recently as a week ago, in the Director's office, he had imagined himself courageously resisting, stoically accepting suffering without a word. The Director's threats had actually elated him, made him feel larger than life.

Utilizados de un modo, la prensa, la radio y el cine son indispensables para la resistencia de la democracia. Utilizados de otro modo, figuran entre las armas más poderosas del arsenal de un dictador.

And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else.

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress.

Fascism must always fail because it creates the discontent which it is designed to suppress. (Crowley quote from book Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin.)

The planet Saturn, which represents anatomy, is the skeleton: It is a rigid structure upon which the rest of the body is built. To what moral qualities does this correspond? The first point of virtue in a bone is its rigidity, its resistance to pressure.

La tierra es un barco demasiado grande para mí. Es un viaje demasiado largo. Es una mujer demasiado hermosa. Es un perfume demasiado intenso. Es una música que no sé tocar. Perdonadme. Pero no voy a bajar. Dejadme volver atrás.

I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.