Quotes About Resistance

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

One man won't make a difference against sixty.

The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power - and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.

We fought against British not because of the color of their skin but also because of the exploitative character of their government.

Our peaceful non-co-operation must be constructive, non-destructive. Poison should not emerge from the throes of love.

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.

EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

I can resist you or flee from you or try my hardest not to respond to you, but it makes no difference. You fall in love with me, and I with you". Daniel to Luce Page 352

You can't make me love you.

Every temptation is an offer to doubt God's love and wisdom.

Love will not be spurred to what it loathes

Tempt not a desperate man

The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire.

Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.

How clerks love refusing. It salves them for being clerks.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret.

But that's the problem with love - it acts on you, works through you, resists your attempts to control.

I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong.

When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers.

Louann is ours, Amy thought. That's it. We know what she can do and what she can't do. We don't need any Mrs. Peck trying to change things.

down her bare legs. Squirming against him, she issued a weak protest. "No, Jared. Please." His sex

I did not mind cleaning up my room, dusting, making the salad, but I resented her manner of asking me.