Quotes About Resistance

Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head-slam you through the wall. -Dev

Sometimes in life, you have to hit back! It's not always gonna be easy!

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.

Throughout the greater part of his life George III was a kind of 'consecrated obstruction'.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

The girl I've been looking for my entire life. Alex resisted the urge to throw Seb off the balcony and see if he could fly.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

but nothing serious happened until July 28, 1942, when Jones went into the studio to record an amusing anti-Nazi war ditty, Der Fuehrer's Face. Originally intended for the Walt Disney cartoon, Donald Duck in Axis Land, this became in Jones's hands a musical riot, rocketing the group to national stardom in less than a month. It demolished Hitler's claims to genetic superiority and established the raspberry as a respectable part of American radio.

The passages also offer an assurance that God has such resistance under control and will ultimately overwhelm it.

You can't fight a battle you don't think exists.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]

young desire it, the middle aged are not averse, the old alone are opposed to it [and they soon] will die.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. ... The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. (Announcing blockade of Cuba)