Quotes About Resistance

With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.

It takes a man to make a devil.

A man that does nothing but watch evil, never will overcome it.

No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

There is a certain nonacquiescence, a noncooperativeness that is the common outgrowth of a life of contemplative prayer.

News has warped us now to what we thought our parents were. Our flags wave backwards in a non-directional wind force-fanning our irrationality and silent warmth that resists captivity or even calm.

It was his way or the highway. And she was definitely not a way he had any intention of going.

Stop, police!' I shouted, on the basis that one of these days it was going to have the right effect.

Once they discovered our solar-powered city, tucked high in the Sierra Oriental, I knew that the end was near. Stupidly, they attacked us, like a wild barbarian horde. We slaughtered them with laser beams and heat-seeking bullets. Instead of driving them away, that only whetted their appetite.

later, the Channel Islands earned the unhappy distinction of becoming the only part of Britain to be occupied by Germany during the Second World War.

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category.

People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out …

He saw the world in which black people always suffered and he didn't like it. He saw a world in which human beings suffered so needlessly from Antipodes to Equator, and he didn't like it either. He saw our people drowning in poverty, in famine, drought, in divisiveness and the blood of war. He saw our people always preyed upon by other powers, manipulated by the Western world, our history and achievements rigged out of existence.

when such improvements are not forthcoming, many people will be inclined to resist change if they can.

If they resisted, what damage could a period of legal uncertainty do?

We—correctly, in hindsight—had resisted raising interest rates.

that Greenspan opposed it, "so I didn't really pursue it.

They didn't resist, but they saw the idea as a low political priority.

however, Greenspan remained firmly opposed.

The fight against entropy is never over.

They even come equipped with a built-in antibiotic called squalamine that helps them resist infections.

You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.