Quotes About Resistance

The attitude of religion to medicine, like the attitude of religion to science, is always necessarily problematic and very often necessarily hostile. A modern believer can say and even believe that his faith is quite compatible with science and medicine, but the awkward fact will always be that both things have a tendency to break religion's monopoly, and have often been fiercely resisted for that reason.

It may be that... you recognize something of yourself in these instances... a disposition to resistance... against arbitrary authority or witless mass opinion

The attitude of religion to medicine, like the attitude of religion to science, is always necessarily problematic and very often necessarily hostile. A modern believer can say and even believe that his faith is quite compatible with science and medicine, but the awkward fact will always be that both have a tendency to break religion's monopoly, and have often been fiercely resisted for that reason.

Every single step toward the clarification of this argument has been opposed root and branch by the clergy.

When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms.

Charlie noted that more and more lately, he had a hard time resisting the urge to fuck with people, especially when they insisted upon behaving like idiots.

Inside, I was like: Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

It's like he has this power over me—like I have an eating disorder and he's a package of Oreo Double Stuff cookies.

In order to hold off the Forces of Darkness, you will need a number two pencil and a calendar, preferably one without pictures of kitties on it.

after Sammy struggles to unhook Stilton's bra] She rolled onto her face to give him a good shot at the hook in the back. Free my people! I will. I am the Harriet Tubman of your breasts.

Minty now held his arms out to his sides, angry Jesus style, suffer all the bitch-ass motherf*ckers need an ass-whoopin' unto me, for I shall rain wrath down upon them -- that look.

Getting a rise out of him was like trying to give a handjob to a parking meter: you were going to end up frustrated and exhausted long before a cop came along to haul you away.

Some time ago, the Luminatus, or the Great Death, who kept balance between light and darkness, ceased to be. Since then, Forces of Darkness have been trying to rise from below. You are all that stands between them and destruction of the collective soul of humanity. Try not to screw up.

She wasn't afraid, so she didn't resist. All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

Let's drop rocks on them!

La ignorancia, el miedo y el odio: ésos son nuestros enemigos. Niégalos con todas tus fuerzas, Eragon, porque si no, fracasaremos.

A long with the warriors of his battalion, Roran fought his way down

os formvn mendûnost brakn, az Varden, hrestvog

I would rather let a thousand vipers bite me before I would agree to serve you." And she spat into the air. His chuckle echoed throughout the room once more: the sound of a man who feared nothing, not even death. "We shall see.

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

Bauman argues that most people "slip" into the roles society provides them, and he is very critical of any implication that "faulty personalities" are the cause of human cruelty. For him the exception—the real "sleeper"—is the rare individual who has the capacity to resist authority and assert moral autonomy but who is seldom aware of this hidden strength until put to the test.

Wartime collaboration with the Nazis frequently

it really did seem as though the company didn't want the project undertaken at all.

Obtuseness was its own defense