Quotes About Resistance

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

most of all, a majority of humans refuse to accept that the universe, the world, god(s), are utterly indifferent to our plight.

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

to say nothing through fear that taking the matter up would be yielding to temptation would itself be to yield to temptation.

our faculties seem to be making war upon us, as if they were resentful of the war made upon them by our vices.

for the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to perfection, the more careful we must be, since his temptations are then much more cunning because there are no others that he dare send us;

For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.

by committing a mortal sin, instead of seeking to please God, it prefers to gratify the devil, the prince of darkness, and so comes to share his blackness.

Writing about the futility of trying to force a wolf into a vehicle, Martino describes the final stage of the conflict. The italics are hers: "But if I continue, perhaps muttering 'Get up you lazy old dusty thing,' The wolf grabs my arm in his teeth, snarling, as if to say, Look, move me where I don't want to go, and we're going to have problems. Your problems will be bigger than mine. He then looks at me with a frank arresting stare, the strength of the mountain rumbling in his eyes.

Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly.

Innovative capitalists have tried to rewrite nature, but to no avail.

All that evil requires is an absence of virtue, where somebody didn't make a stand.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

The celebration of God is simultaneously an act of war.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.