Quotes About Resistance

Whenever I've tried to free my life from a set of the circumstances that continually oppress it, I've been instantly surrounded by other circumstances of the same order, as if the inscrutable web of creation were irrevocably at odds with me. I yank from my neck a hand that was choking me, and I see that my own hand is tied to a noose that fell around my neck when I freed it from the stranger's hand. When I gingerly remove the noose, it's with my own hands that I nearly strangle myself.

Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.

Toda a vida é guerra, e a batalha é, pois, a síntese da vida.

Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you.

He had learned enough to hate the destruction that had to come and not all that was going to be destroyed.

Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian's calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.

there has never been a satisfactory account of the origin of evil, and there will be none on this side of the consummation of the kingdom of God. Evil is a vast excrescence, a monstrous contradiction that cannot be explained but can only be denounced and resisted wherever it appears.64

I don't think you can be a comic book fan and not hate change.

With 'Battlestar Galactica,' we had such resistance from the fan base to changing it. The upshot was, we ultimately won them over.

I suppose trying not to fancy Richard Gere - that's been quite hard!

Maybe I wouldn't hit three fast food restaurants in a day, but I could hit one in a day. I try not to do that.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.

I am as fearless as the Rani of Jhansi and I will fight against all those people who are dragging me in controversy.

Keralites have become fed up with this kind of politics that creates martyrs.

I'm fed up with being bossed around.

I waged war against my feelings.

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

I really hate the people in power. I hate them with every fiber of my being. That is what drives me in almost everything I do.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.