Quotes About Resistance

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

I can't do it, if I finish that, I'll have to attach a seat belt to the toilet. Maybe an airbag too.

It's the obligation of all writers to shoulder up against the wall of the permissible and shove . Writers must shove no matter how large the obstacle and without concern for the strength of those pushing back from the other side. This shoving is made more difficult by the fact that those pushing back are very often the same shovers who moved the wall to where it now stands--they nudged it forward as far as they could stomach it, and cannot tolerate a millimeter more.

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

To the last we have learned nothing. In all of us, deep down, there seems to be something granite and unteachable. No one truly believes, despite the hysteria in the streets that the world of tranquil certainties we were born into is about to be extinguished.

Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in the slightest, but at least the suffocation will help pass the time for you. [Vishous to Jane]

I will not fall in love with you," she said. "I can't let myself. I won't." "That's all right. I'll love you enough for the both of us.

You can speak truth to power," Joel-Andrew explained, "but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy.

When you push people where they don't want to be pushed, you will face even more resistance.

This is a novel of asymmetric warfare.

If this was his last stand, he wasn't going to make it easy on them.

internal trend lines are far more useful than conventional trend lines in defining potential support and resistance areas.

When the shopping trolley was first invented, it was a complete failure - people were used to either carrying a basket around with them, or asking the grocer to fill their bag with their chosen items. The shoppers didn't seem to want to try this new method, so the inventor, Sylvan Goldman, hired dummy shoppers to walk around his store with trolleys, and had an employee offering one to patrons as they entered - and yet it still took a long time to catch on!

The truth is that things change whether we want them to or not. Becoming attached to things as they are or pushing things away that we do not like does not stop them from changing. It only leads to further suffering.

We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with Soul Force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. But we will soon wear you down with our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win yours in the process. Martin

psychology—that life is an array of constantly changing sensations, some of them pleasant, some of them unpleasant, and some of them neutral. Our unconscious response is to grasp after the pleasant and to try to resist the unpleasant, so that we are always at war with the basic transience of our experience. We cannot really come to rest with things as they arise and depart.

The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

The Blue Church's stranglehold on truth and reality is breaking, and new ideas are emerging. But when they do, the Blue Church rallies to squash them using their trusted techniques of shame, ridicule, and exile.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

We could live, but they won't let us."]

I think my body knew before my mind did. Or maybe I just refused to listen to what I knew.

Nothing was ever easy or simple, not one blasted thing.

This is the way brown people have to fight, my grandfather says. You can't just put your fist up. You have to insist on something gently. Walk toward a thing slowly. But be ready to die, my grandfather says, for what is right. Be ready to die, my grandfather says, for everything you believe in.