Quotes About Resistance

On the other hand, I'm part of a movement which has a very, very ambitious goal of slowing down ... the American empire and keeping it from continuing to do the many terrible things it does all over the world. We have to reach the American public, and to do that we have to have access to the mass media.

Where he (Alexander) came the inhabitants either accepted him with roses and wine, or fought and were beaten. He preferred the latter.

Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers was asleep, he (Casanova) progressed until he arrived at the thought " that it was ridiculous to be oppressed

transitions will need to make sense to people, for otherwise people will resist them and make it far harder for the organization to grow as it must.

No pain, no gain," they say. But many change efforts fail because the people affected experience only the pain. The company may gain, but for employees it seems to be all loss. Trying to talk them out of their feelings will get you nowhere.

Every organizational system has its own natural "immune system" whose task it is to resist unfamiliar, and so unrecognizable, signals. That is not necessarily bad.

Given the ambiguities of the neutral zone, it is easy for people to become polarized: some want to rush forward and others want to go back to the old ways.

O, she is the antidote to desire.

To subdue and crush the masses of a nation by military force, when all are unanimous in the determination to be free, is to attempt the imprisonment of a whole people; all such projects must be temporary and transient, and terminate in a catastrophe...

In the 1520s the Spanish had swept away the vast armies of the mighty Aztec Empire in a matter of

plantations in Java; forty-seven chiefs were tortured and executed.

I wish to protest most strongly about everything.

Neither had any interest in compromise or conciliation.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

National Review… stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!

When the people whose claims we are considering are told to apply themselves to these tasks they become irritated and feel almost insulted. They

The more public thy place, Christian, and the more eminent thy service for God, the more thou must look that the devil will have some more dangerous design or other against thee; and therefore, if every private soldier needs armour against Satan's bullets of temptation, then the commanders and officers who stand in the front of battle much more.

Were there no devil, yet we should have our hands full, in resisting the corruptions of our own hearts; but

But none are so safe from sin as they that fear the falling into it most.

When the flesh or Satan beg time of thee, it is to steal time from thee.

Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look

Great and small, minister and people, all must wrestle; not one part of Christ's army in the field, and the other at ease in their quarters, where no enemy comes. Here