Quotes About Resistance

Zeks - izraz koji pzna?ava zatvorenik iz sovjetskih koncentracionih logora bili su "moljeni" silom - da vjeruju u sistem koji ih pot?injava. U Kini, koncentracioni logoraš postao je student: on mora studirati pravu misao partije, i reformisati vlastitu pogrešnu misao.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.

Behold with what companions I walked the streets of Babylon, and wallowed in the mire thereof, as if in a bed of spices and precious ointments. And that I might cleave the faster to its very centre, the invisible enemy trod me down, and seduced me, for that I was easy to be seduced.

For a while they could almost taste the Sugar Balls and Choco Chums they weren't snacking

you can do against Milton.

There must always be those with the fire of rebellion in their blood! There must always be those who will dare to fight an unbeatable enemy! Only thus can the race of man remain strong and fearless!

It always demands a far greater degree of courage for an individual to oppose an organized movement than to let himself be carried along with the stream — individual courage, that is, a variety of courage that is dying out in these times of progressive organization and mechanization.

La máquina de 1792, la guillotina, inventada para suprimir toda resistncia contra el Estado, es una herramienta torpe comparada con la maquinaria policíaca, combinada y refinada por la superioridad espiritual del José Fouché de 1799.

Jamás!» grita indignado. Pero ya sabemos por la Historia que ese «jamás» de los reyes, de los políticos y de los generales suele casi siempre ser el preludio de una capitulación. ¿No

Siempre que un pueblo recurre a la violencia para arrebatarles la libertad a otros, pierde con ello, en una enigmática venganza, la fuerza portentosa de su propio aislamiento.

How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside?

Robespierre) EÄŸilip bükülürlüÄŸe, dirençsizliÄŸe, baÅŸar? için yaltaklanmalara kar?? beslediÄŸi kinin bütün kat?l???yla, dine baÄŸl? olanlar?n kutsall??a deÄŸer vermeyenlere kar?? duyduÄŸu güvensizlikle küçümsüyor Fouché'yi.

Believe me, we doctors are not so immoderately fond of "good", submissive patients as you may think. They are the ones who least help us to help them. To us, vigorous and even frantic resistance on the part of a patient can only be welcome, for, strangely enough, these apparently unreasonable reactions sometimes have more effect than our most miraculous nostrums.

El que quiere y cree que puede evitar hacer el mal con sabiduría cae en la tentación y en la culpa

Es gehört zur Tragik aller Despoten, daß sie den unabhängigen Menschen selbst dann noch fürchten, wenn sie ihn politisch machtlos und mundtot gemacht haben. Es genügt ihnen nicht, daß er schweigt und schweigen muß. Schon daß er nicht ja sagt, nicht dient und nicht buckelt, daß er sich nicht geschäftig in die Schar ihrer Schmeichler und Diener einreiht, macht sein Vorhandensein, sein Nochvorhandensein für sie zum Ärgernis.

L'arte è questo: scappare dalla normalità che ti vuole mangiare.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

It is time for pastors, priests and all true believers to come out of the closet and stand for truth against the flood of evil.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.