Quotes About Resistance

Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

Men fall in private long before they fall in public.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

I ain't no drinking man, but temptation got the best of me.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

"You listen to Portishead, you're not like the others. Want some coke?" I'm like, "Nah, man."

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

I'm hooked my friend to the boy who makes slaves out of men, and oh believe me, flying high in a friendly sky.

She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick.