Quotes About Resistance

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

At some point in your career, someone is going to tell you, "This stove is hot. Do not touch this stove." And the weird thing is, you'll want to touch it. But resist that urge, man.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.