Quotes About Resistance

I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously.

Why,' swore Yossarian at him approvingly, 'you evil-eyed, mechanically-aptituded, disaffiliated son of a -----, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?' 'I didn't,' Orr said, 'walk around with anything in my cheeks. I walked around with crab apples in my cheeks. When I couldn't get crab apples, I walked around with horse chestnuts. In my cheeks.

You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.

the sleepy, drowsy state of the conscious mind, resistance is reduced to a minimum; that's why, results follow.

In this embrace of suffering, even unto death, Bilbo is encapsulating the whole idea of life being a cross that we are called to carry willingly and indeed enthusiastically. Life is not about the pursuit of creature comforts and taking the paths of least resistance. It is about Love, which can be defined as willingly laying down our lives for others.

I aim to misbehave.

Maybe then we will see the design of the two-minded creature And know why half the world fights righteously for greedy masters And the other half is nailing it all back together

We tried to pretend war wasn't going to happen. Though they began building their houses all around us and demanding more. They started teaching our children their god's story, A story in which we'd always be slaves.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be.

Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.

no one knew what to do with Ariah Erskine, who refused to behave as others wished her to behave.

Katya stood in the doorway at the rear of Mr Kidder's studio and could not seem to step out onto the terrace and run away. Panting like a dog that has been trained by his master and can't break out of his training, though his training has hurt, humbled, humiliated him and enslaved him.

A woman convinced against her will is of the same opinion still.

Everytime you feed the flesh, you strenghten it. This is good if you are trying to build a good habit, but detrimental if you are trying to stop a bad habit. The way to kill the flesh is to starve it; to stop feeding it.

Romans 6 - Our flesh is the instrument that Satan works through. When we say no to the flesh, we say no to the devil.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

Satan will aggressively fight against the renewal of your mind, but it is vital that you press on and continue to pray and study in this area until you gain measurable victory.

The effect of laughter on the body is immediate. Laughing actually lowers blood pressure, reduces stress hormones, and increases muscle flexion. • Laughter increases your resistance to infections. • Laughter also triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, and produces a general sense of well-being.

Some of us are so stubborn we won't trust God until we have no other choice at all.

We are not beyond the devil's ability to tempt us, but we can always resist him in Jesus' name. There are days when the battle of the mind seems relentless, but victory always comes to those who refuse to give up. Thomas Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

our warfare is not with other human beings but with the devil and his demons.

We fight many battles, but probably the greatest battle we fight is the one with ourselves.

That is the way we are to resist Satan when he comes to tempt us into condemnation, depression or any other wrong thing he is trying to give us.