Quotes About Resistance

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]

Thurst [thrust] out nature with a croche [crook], yet woll she styll runne back agayne.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change.

It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

Human being is the only creature I found ho does everything he is not suppose to do.

Humans have a propensity to oppose things when it is not their idea and they had no input, or simply because it was initiated by those whom they dislike.

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

Philip wooed me with all the patience of someone trying to coax a half-wild animal into the house and, like many a stray, I found myself domesticated before I thought to resist.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic

Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.

Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism.

Silence does not equal patriotism. Obedience is not the American way.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.