Quotes About Resistance

In another illustration of reactance, children (and adults too) may refuse all proposals about how to spend the day, even the one they prefer, because they do not want to feel imposed upon.

what we need the most we resist the most.

think Devon sensed that we were going to duke it out, and gave no quarter. In this context, we were both true to our natures. He could have given in, I could have looked the other way. Somehow, I didn't think that was going to happen. The battle was joined.

Resisting change does not change the truth that change is constantly happening.

Evolution is necessary for ones progress…. resisting it could make one sore in mind and spirit and then unable to enjoy the journey.

But at the same time, progressives want to claim that any effort to resist the forces of "progress" is an act of aggression in the culture war. From abortion and gay marriage to the hot fad for transgender rights, progressives want every institution and community to bend the knee to their movement. And when anyone refuses, the resisters are cast as the aggressors.

Mes gyvenam ir atrodom, lyg gyventum?m nuolatiniam proteste prieš šio šimtme?io idiotizm?.

Education is the resistance to everything that is bad today.

It was one of those days when every time I went to go out the door, something grabbed me in the back of the brain and said, lie down and masturbate one more time.

Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism.

Porque hay mucha oposición por parte de la carne, el mundo y el diablo

For the very notion of hardness of heart implies moral inability.

There is no want of power in God to cast wicked men into hell at any moment. Men's hands can't be strong when God rises up: the strongest have no power to resist him, nor can any deliver out of his hands. He

King's calm tone and conservative attire may have disguised the boldness of his words: "I think it's better to be aggressive at this point," he said. "It seems to me that it is both historically and sociologically true that privileged classes do not give up their privileges voluntarily. And they do not give them up without strong resistance.

To accept evil without challenging it, King concluded, would be to condone it.

It's not easy for a rebel to remain a rebel all his life. It's exhausting

one irrepressible folk hero hailed as our favorite defender of the truth and resister of authority," Budd Schulberg

The controlled system allows people to think about long-term goals and thereby escape the tyranny of the here-and-now, the automatic triggering of temptation by the sight of tempting objects.

The Authority/subversion foundation

We are right to note the license and disobedience of this member which thrusts itself forward so inopportunely when we do not want it to, and which so inopportunely lets us down when we most need it. It imperiously contests for authority with our will.8

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Sleep. The ultimate resistance

Life has a funny way of turning you into the one thing you don't want to be.

So, basically if we keep trying to save the country and maybe the world from a bunch of murderous assholes with outer space weapons, then we're the bad guys?" "In a nutshell." "Then, hey ... let's be bad guys.