Quotes About Resistance

Boycott is a widely understood form of social, economic, and political action.

I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.

If you really want a life of usefulness to God, you have to be ready to fight. You must be willing to take on the giants that come lumbering into your path to block your way and stop your progress.

I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.

The problem most people have with resisting temptation is that they never really want to discourage it altogether.

When planning a habit change, expect to face temptation, especially when your willpower is at its weakest.

When planning a habit change, expect to face temptation, especially when your willpower is at its weakest. Only when you understand your own limitations will you have a plan for overcoming them.

This goes back to the conversation about ego depletion. Remember—you have a limited amount of willpower every day. When it's depleted, it's hard to control your impulses.

There's nothing to tell." I gave her a brief discussion of fertilizer. She seemed unimpressed with my agricultural expertise. "Believe what you like," she said. It was good to have permission, but I resisted telling her so.

If we do not know what we are doing, then it follows no one else does either; and, if no one knows what we are going to do, well then, why is someone so determined to stop us from doing it?

Whatever evil you let ride becomes commonplace, eventually. Problem is, it's easier to get used to it than carve it out.

Well, the world can go fuck itself.

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

When I bought my first little flat, it was two bedrooms, so I got Sarah Phelps to live with me. My years-later-to-be husband was slightly thinking, 'Why are you inviting your friends to live with you?' I was very resistant to leaving my friends.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

We wanted to slow down. But one would let us.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.

When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.