Quotes About Resistance

Better make sure you're not in my way when I go down." My eyebrow lifted as I dipped my head to his level. "You wouldn't want to get squashed.

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.

The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

We must dissent from the fear.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

What we fear we often rage against.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.

That which one fears, one typically won't embrace with open arms.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.