Quotes About Resistance

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

When I do think, 'Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,' I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster's never seen me high.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

The man who has never been tempted doesn't know how dishonest he is.

The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?

Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.

The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.