Quotes About Resistance

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man.

When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and unpleasant ways to take its revenge.

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool.

It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back up!

We need only think of the number of talented men who sooner or later make their apologies and concessions to philistinism, so as to be permitted to exist.

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.