Quotes About Resistance

Hay tantos medios de robarle las almas al diablo.

A one malobrojne, sto su nesto i saznali, al' nisu znali vesto da skrivaju saznanja ta, no su ih, srca nabujala sva, prostome puku obznanjivali, - njih su, otkad za svet se zna, razapinjali i spaljivali.

The British went on fighting like lions against the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, but they couldn't or wouldn't stand up to the Arabs at all – though much of the Arab world was openly pro-Nazi.

Why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanised state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right - or rather, your moral duty - to eliminate this system? - 3rd Leaflet of the White Rose

Resistance to Change comes from your Ego.

Be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you. Be generous in helping the unfortunate and those in distress. But bind to you friends of your own kind. Friends who will encourage you. Stand with you. Live as you desire to live; who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment; and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

Regimes collapse when people are no longer afraid and think they're no longer alone.

The "great wall of steel," the People's Liberation Army, defends the state against the peasants in Zizhou and all the other peoples of China. But what use is steel when the enemy is an idea? Steel wins the skirmishes, but ultimately it must lose when too many share a thought.

Two issues mark decadent societies according to Paul: an unwillingness to acknowledge (or honor) the Creator, and a resistance to gratitude.

It is a delicate balance, resisting the hypnotic spell of an organization's culture and, at the same time, remaining committed from the heart to the personally relevant goals of the organization.

Don't worry about avoiding temptation — as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

Bessie cried. "I ain't movin' to Arizona! Damnit, there is nothin' there but gravel and scorpions..."

Morning after Halloween: I'm never eating candy again. An hour later: Oh look, candy!

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books.

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.

They try to burn the Devil out from books, but Angels of knowledge resist the flames of fear.

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because that Raid really doesn't taste that bad.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.

I consider my refusal to go to the gym today as resistance training.

Some torture Fate beyond recognition rather than let him have his way.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Revolutions are not made with rose water.

I fought the lawn and the lawn won.