Quotes About Resistance

They shall be as thorns in your sides.

Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening windows.

Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation — as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social change is epitomized in the fact that the first Packard car body delivered to the manufacturer had a whipstock on the dashboard.

For they're hangin' men an' women there for wearin' o' the Green.

When law can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow, An' when the leaves in summer time their color dare not show, Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen; But till that day, plaise God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green.

A stiffnecked people.

From all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The way of transgressors is hard.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.

Ami, entends-tuLe vol noir—des corbeaux—sur nos plaines…Ami, entends-tuLes cris sourds—du pays—qu'on enchaine.

Sic semper tyrannis [Thus always to tyrants].

The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours, my brothers, and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue, I thought I would not go to school.

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.

People don't really want to grow up, people don't really want to change, people don't really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, "Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you are giving it power. You give it as much power as you are using to fight it.

Thus, any change you achieve is inevitably accompanied by inner conflict.