Quotes About Resistance

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.

That's what my song 'Medication' is about - everyone trying to make you a zombie.

Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.

My guess is that before Obama departs, he will adopt some of the more aggressive military options he has been resisting, such as 'safe zones' inside Syria and more aggressive deployment of U.S. special forces.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

He who attempts to resist the wave is swept away, but he who bends before it abides.

The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability.

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.

Don't ask me to give in to this body of mine. I can't afford it. Between me and my body there must be a struggle until death.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

I love an opposition that has convictions.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.