Quotes About Resistance

He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

A little uptight? Hey, man you couldn't drag a needle out of her butt with a tractor.

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Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight

Some adults, having now made some headway toward understanding their kids' concerns, have difficulty resisting the temptation to revert to form by being dismissive or offering solutions, thereby ending the problem-solving process.

executive and nonexecutive, every day. Yet few people are even aware of it. When asked whether making decisions would deplete their willpower and make them vulnerable to temptation, most people say no. They don't realize that decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily sensible people get angry at their colleagues and families, splurge on clothes, buy junk food at the supermarket, and can't resist the car dealer's offer to rustproof their new sedan.

They'll Have to shoot me first to take my Gun.

There is a spectrum of resistance possible within a political context. From our commitment to defending each other against arrest at demonstrations, to providing both legal and political defences for people brought to trial, to supporting imprisoned revolutionaries, we believe that our commitment to each other is our strongest defence against the power of the State. We demand the release of all political prisoners and prisoners of war, but we also work for the abolition of the prison system.

We will not get real freedom as a concession from rulers. We will have to win real freedom for ourselves.

You can say no," he rasped, his breath warming her lips. "But you ought to know I've been thinking about this all day." Crystal savored the heat that slammed through her body as she placed her palms on his chest. Rising on tiptoe, she said softly, "Just do it, Tanner.

His mother was, as they say, of good family, but the father who died before he knew him was a tradesman. And his mother's Catholic family had a trade too, to which he did not feel even the slightest bit drawn, and that trade was martyrdom. Thomas More, beheaded for refusing to condone Henry VIII's schism, was his great-grand-uncle; an uncle was imprisoned and exiled for being a Jesuit; his brother died in jail of plague for harbouring a priest.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution

Je zlem poddat se aktivn? nebo pasivn? zlu jako jeho nástroj, jeho pozorovatel nebo jeho ob??.

The German people stand before a decision of the greatest historical meaning. It concerns whether the Christian faith shall retain its right to a homeland in Germany or not….We do not want it to be said of us before God's judgment seat: 'When the gospel of Jesus Christ was opposed in German lands, they remained mute and gave their children over to a strange spirit without resistance.' — Pastor Paul Schneider

Op de volgende statie van deze kruisweg zien wij hoe de eigenaar de kat met geweld door het luikje probeert te duwen. Maar daar zijn katten niet van gediend. Zij laten zich eerst als een harmonica in elkaar duwen, tot ze wel de helft korter zijn dan gewoonlijk, en zetten daarna of al meteen de tegenaanval in. Tenslotte neemt hij met geheven staart de benen en gaat zich op een veilige afstand zitten wassen.

If we can be strong enough to resist the stuff Allah has allowed, it makes it easier to resist the stuff that's forbidden.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.