Quotes About Resistance

So how do they deal with it? They ignore it. They hope it'll go away Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and it won't go away.

Ideas without precedent," he was to write later: are generally looked on with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world are challenged. A hypothesis earnestly defended begets emotional reaction which may cloud the protagonist's view, but if such hypotheses outrage prevailing modes of thought the view of antagonists may also become fogged.

L'insegnamento è l'antagonismo tra insegnante e studente. E' quello che viene prodotto dalla perseveranza dell'uno e la resistenza dell'altro. E' una lunga e dura lotta contro una resistenza naturale

There it was, the choice I'd confronted so often in life: the path of least resistance, or the walk over hot coals.

I read a story about an old gentlemen who was known for his godly life. Someone asked him one day, "What do you do when you are tempted, old man?" He replied, "I just look up to Heaven and say, 'Lord, your property is in danger.'

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

Despite that commitment, the Resistance found itself stymied. Republic space and First Order space were separated by a buffer zone of neutral systems, and the peace that had been negotiated—a peace that many, including Poe, believed existed in name only—meant that military action taken by one side upon the other was considered an overt act of war. It

No, the Empire needed to be fought. It had to be resisted.

Hannah set down her paperwork. "That's complete bullshit.

Words didn't have any impact on Albert Haight. He saw them as obstacles to dodge or bounce from his head like a soccer ball. To the gut. To where it hurts. "Don't do this," she said

the greatest miracle of omnipotence was in creating beings who had the potential to resist it.2 2.

it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia

Only a fool resists the delight of contradiction by nature

Look, it's not love that makes the world go round, it's inertia

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to—really listened to—is the second-best thing in the world.

Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims

it's a very hard thing to resist, real goodness, in a tough man.

You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because its so hard to resist. Being listener to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world. What's the first best thing? Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power. ... And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power. They're wrong. Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

the more that I tried to ignore it, the more agonizing it felt.

But repression, they say, breeds resistance in some men, and I was resisting the world with every minute of my life.

Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.

Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.