Quotes About Resistance

preparedness to fight the aggressor generally prevents violence; and that even if the violence cannot be avoided, it is at least better to defend yourself than to surrender to aggression.

Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.

The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.

They want us scared and stupid. They want us to believe that their way is the only way.

Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.

Never run from one such as me, female. You will no' get away - and we like it.

The Nazis succeeded in taking over the church, 'but gradually,' she writes, 'they became aware that something was wrong... A force was resisting them, something they could not put their hands on -- a belief.

Now you know why it was so hard for me to let go of one more thing...the land, the view, a sense of something...one thing just staying the way it should be. Control.

The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.

Often, the difference between what is and what could be is not measured by the length of the track, but rather by the resistance between our ears.

We cannot be tempted with something we have no desire for.

When believers refuse to listen to the devil, however, he becomes a powerless pawn of God's divine purposes. I

Maybe this is another way to think about original sin—the ingrained lure of the possibility of going numb, a habit of acquiescence to it.

No," Kelsey said as if it were the

We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them.

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

Asking yourself a question, that's how resistance begins. And then ask that very question to someone else. —REMCO CAMPERT

Aquilo que você resiste, persiste.

Misoneism" — a fear of the new and the unknown

It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it's the troubles that cause the rebels.

The light may well be dying, but we will rage, rage against it; and be assured, we will never go gentle into that good night.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off."

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

An unconditional equivalence of law with the results of any particular formal process, therefore, would only be blind subordination to the pure decision of the offices entrusted with lawmaking, in other words, a decision detached from every substantive relation to law and justice, and, consequently, an unconditional renunciation of any resistance.