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Quotes About Resistance

The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks
~ Thomas Brooks
The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.
~ Thomas C. Haliburton
The Everlasting No.
~ Thomas Carlyle
You may take my purse; but I cannot have my moral Self annihilated. The purse is any Highwayman's who might meet me with a loaded pistol: but the Self is mine and God my Maker's; it is not yours; and I will resist you to the death, and revolt against you ...
~ Thomas Carlyle
Resist the beginnings! Nay were resistance unadvisable, even dangerous, yet surely pause is very natural: pause, with Twenty-five Millions behind you, may become resistance enough.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Thomas de Quincey
~ noli me tangere
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
~ Neil Young
Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.
~ Trevor Phillips
I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.
~ Jo Stafford
I've always loved donuts. I can't go near one or eat one, because then I'm just done for. I always want more.
~ Linda Cardellini
The war against the Black Liberation movement by the FBI/U.S. government was most influential for me in seeing the necessity for armed self-defense.
~ Susan Rosenberg
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
~ William James
The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.
~ Hassan Nasrallah
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
~ John Gilmore
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.
~ Tim LaHaye
I know what I like, and I'm not trying to adapt to new things.
~ Kyle Kinane
Amazon's capitulation to those opposed to their expansion in New York City is an epic moment for people power over an enormous corporate bully.
~ Zephyr Teachout
To the old, the new is usually bad news.
~ Eric Hoffer
The newspapers were always against me in the beginning because they thought I was depriving people of what they wanted.
~ Harry Triguboff
I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.
~ Vladimir Bukovsky
There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.
~ Joshua Wong
It's interesting to hear what somebody does when they have no interest in playing by the rules.
~ Brad Paisley
Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.
~ Nick Hornby
I'm thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting?
~ Nick Hornby