Quotes About Resistance

Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

knowing that people may not want to hear what I really feel needs to be written

God unleashes history in the beginning. God helps the baby to stand in the beginning. But God is also out ahead, calling history homeward across the field or across the room. God doesn't force it. Sometimes history responds, or some parts of history respond, but others resist or rebel. But God keeps calling.

Roman throats like the Zealots. Instead, if a Roman soldier backhands you with a blow

A human captive had fought the machines! She had destroyed a robot with her own hands! Amazed, they called out her name.

If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won!

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats.

Resistance to change is a survival characteristic. But in its extreme form, it is poisonous—and suicidal. —Zensunni stricture

La mente da órdenes al cuerpo, y este obedece de inmediato. La mente se da órdenes a sí misma, y encuentra resistencia.

You'll never take me alive! I don't want you alive, rat!

Bro, all you've got is a book. How do you plan to fight our parents? With literacy?

The brain is a fickle bitch. Sometimes it revolts." He

Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

Every day, and every minute of every day, there is a battle going on inside of you between doing what is right, hard, and necessary (like the angel on one shoulder) or doing what is fun, easy, and of little or no value (like the devil on your other shoulder). Every minute of every day, you must fight and win this battle with the Expediency Factor and resist the pull of the Path of Least Resistance if you truly desire to become everything you are capable of becoming.

Hearing can't dares a person to find a workaround. It's a basic psychological theory called reactance - telling someone no just makes them want it more.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

What evidence do you have that the black people in your country are ready to rise against the regime? A true revolution begins from the soil, from the grass roots. It is the final cry of despair from the ground up. Have you heard the cry "freedom?

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there

In verse 7 "submit to God" is the upward or Godward relationship and "resist the devil" is the outward or the satanward relationship.

Di medan perang, manusia jahat itu memang tidak bisa dikalahkan

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

I will not listen to you, or anybody else. Because you know what? Everyone think they know so goddamned much about everything and no one knows fuck all about anything.

His mother had become impossible, as, he supposed, all elderly people were when they refused to accept that their lives had to change.

So the White House wants to eat the Washington Post, so what? It will be wearing on you, but the end is in sight. It's building and they see it and they know that they can't stop the real story from coming out. That's why they're so desperate. Just be careful, yourselves and the paper, and wait them out, don't jump too fast. Be careful and don't be too anxious.