Quotes About Resistance

Gamma was an aggressively terrible cook. She resented recipes. She was openly hostile toward spices. Like a feral cat, she instinctively bristled against any domestication

purely negative approach

But—we must ask today—why then did no one listen to Overbeck?

Hitlerovo jednání bylo od po?átku zam??eno proti jakékoli možnosti smíÃ…â"¢ení. Existovalo jen vítÄ›zství, nebo zkáza.

odporovali, i když vÄ›tÅ¡inou jen slovy. Jsou to anonymní mu?edníci, kteÃ…â"¢í zmizeli - a z toho je jasnÄ› vidÄ›t, že ú?inný odpor nebyl možný. Až do roku 1939 byly pÃ…â"¢eci koncentra?ní tábory n??ím, co se týkalo jen NÄ›mc?.

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread... I only like what I'm allowed to like. I'm beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody, for me it's as if this stuff was made out of plastic. The idea doesn't even enter my mind that a human being could put that into their mouth. I'm like the animals in the forest. They don't touch what they cannot eat.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.

If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.

There is an eternal conflict between the school-room and the bar-room. The school-room makes men, the bar-room destroys them.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.