Quotes About Resistance

There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.

The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Men and people will fight you down when you see the light. Let me tell you if you are not wrong than everything is all right.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death.

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.

It irritates the hell out of me to be in a situation where I'm forced to do exactly what's expected.

But unbidden and unwanted thoughts are the hardest to expel from one's mind.

And he can convert millions of people to his religion because it spreads like a fucking virus—people have no resistance to it because no one is used to thinking about religion, people aren't rational enough to argue about this kind of thing. Basically, anyone who reads the National Enquirer or watches pro wrestling on TV is easy to convert.

I'd rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

Tekla wanted to slap her so much that her hand actually twitched.

Margaret really messes up his head. When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override. But one thing he learned in Hawaii was that a Manual Override is unfortunately not the same as the real thing. The effect wears off too soon.

Carl Hollywood was appalled to realize that the only thing now standing between them and their three-decade march to the banks of the Huang Pu was Carl Hollywood, his .44, and a handful of lightly armed civilians.

unbidden and unwanted thoughts are the hardest to expel from one's mind.

The barriers placed in his path (working his way through the Cryptonomicon, breaking the Nipponese Air Force Meteorological Code, breaking the Coral naval attache machine cipher, breaking Unnamed Nipponese Army Water Transport Code 3A, breaking the Greater East Asia Ministry Code) present about as much resistance as successive decks of a worm-eaten wooden frigate.

Even high-tech weapons systems cannot defeat organized small-arms fire on a massive scale.

if any of them notice you and, for some reason, object to your little plan, whatever the fuck it is, then by all means kill them. And if that doesn't work, please, by all means, kill yourself, because you'll probably do a neater job of it than the Fascists will.

His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought.