Quotes About Resistance

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

The devil won't stay where there is music.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.

Nature hates calculators.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

What use is it for me to force my nature? / For my nature shall always remain / What it is and conquer what belongs to it, / However men may narrow its path.

Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.