Quotes About Resistance

Good man always stands against that.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

I liked it way better when I could just be openly defiant, rather than being forced to resort to reason.

Oh, crap. You're saying that it's going to kill me, too." "Yes, that is exactly what I'm freaking saying, you tool." "Um," Thomas said, "I'm against that.

I had just been defeated by a literal hallucination built from denial and the most determined and pettily self-interested stupidity I had ever encountered.

The best way to keep yourself from doing something grossly self-destructive and stupid is to avoid the temptation to do it. For example, it is far easier to fend off inappropriate amorous desires if one runs screaming from the room every time a pretty girl comes in. Which sounds silly, I know, but the same principle applies to everything else.

Matson threw up his skinny arms to protect himself as something huge and quick shoved its way between the bars, like a big dog going through a rotten picket fence, and engulfed him.

Tonight, he is the enemy of my enemy." Toot gasped and gripped his spear more tightly. "A double enemy!

It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.

Bob," I said. "We're going to bind a Titan." "Fuck that!" the skull sputtered. "I'm going to Utah!

Then you know that Sam was the true hero of the tale," Sanya said. "That he faced far greater and more terrible foes than he ever should have had to face, and did so with courage. That he went alone into a black and terrible land, stormed a dark fortress, and resisted the most terrible temptation of his world for the sake of the friend he loved. That in the end, it was his actions and his actions alone that made it possible for light to overcome darkness.

spun back to the enemy, brought my shield up—and stood tall. "You!" I said, relishing the moment. "Shall not! Pass!

Kill the bridge, dammit!" I shouted back. I heard the Sword of Faith come alight in his hands, and a glance over my shoulder showed him hacking through the bridge at his feet as if it had been made of so many soap bubbles. I spun back to the enemy, brought my shield up—and stood tall. "You!" I said, relishing the moment. "Shall not! Pass!" They replied with a hail of automatic weapons fire. The impacts against my shield all but blinded me.

she was "giving him the devil.

God has given you all you need to fight against the enemy.

The most vexing thing in the life of a man who wishes to change is the improbability of change.

Yesterday I got a call from the outside world but I said no in thunder. I was a dog on a short chain and now there's no chain.

One of them would hurl a rock, then a few more. Suddenly it's raining rocks. Ya with me? That's their cover, see, because no matter how big a weapon you come out the door with, you still don't want to catch a rock in the face. A sawed-off won't stop a rock, follow?

the only published human feeding experiment revealed that the genetic material inserted into GM soy can transfer into the bacteria living inside our intestines and continue to function. This means that long after we stop eating GMO foods with an antibiotic gene, we may still have this gene inside us, creating antibiotic-resistant superdiseases.

All our lives we sweat and save Building for a shallow grave Must be something else we say Somehow to defend this place Everything must be this way.

You're all a bunch of fucking slaves.

They had no hope of anything more, no comprehension that there might be anything more. In a sense they were an autonomous body, functioning within a society which was organized to grind them down. The law did not protect them; for them it was merely an instrument of harassment, a means of moving them on when it was against their interest to move, or detaining them where it was to their disadvantage to stay.

And when it comes to the dangers of political autocracy and the rise of authoritarian behavior, people in the faith community must be among the first to raise the challenge. Our "Reclaiming Jesus" declaration concludes its proposition on our commitment to "Christ's way of leadership" with this commitment: "We believe authoritarian political leadership is a theological danger threatening democracy and the common good—and we will resist it.