Quotes About Resistance

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

People tend to want to follow the beaten path. The difficulty is that the beaten path doesn't seem to be leading anywhere.

Teacher, there are things that I don't want to learn.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

People are hurting and angry, and they want something to be able to stand up and fight for. That's what I believe the antidote is to Trumpism.

I am society's child. This is how they made me and now I'm sayin' what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me, America.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It always made me want to do just the opposite.

Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything.

I don't take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That's still there if you want it, but I don't really seek that out any more.

It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

And I keep on fighting for the things I want. Though I know that when you're dead you can't. But I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave.

The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

If you stop eating donutes you will live 3 years longer.It's just 3 more years that you want a donut. < . ) < .

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

It is too disturbing for the patient to feel sexually attracted to his mother; in a last-ditch effort, the resistance disguises the feelings as current impulses toward the analyst. Although

We become the kings of stubborn resistance in our own little worlds. We get into ruts that lead us down paths that cause nothing but pain and end with our hitting a wall. Yet we will do everything but try something different.

Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Each little field [had] one gate … so each a little battlefield… So the Germans fought in that one, and when they got pushed out they fought in the next one." Patrick Delaforce, Royal Horse Artillery, 11th Armoured Division

The trouble is that organizations like processes. They are warm, familiar things and can be rolled out fairly easily. It is therefore tempting to understand strategy execution as a process, distribute the forms, get everyone to fill them in, and relax. The result will be resentment, rigidity, and stagnation.