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Quotes About Resistance

No one likes change but babies in diapers.
~ Barbara Johnson
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
~ Tom Waits
Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.
~ Dick Gregory
I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me.
~ Brendan Behan
Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.
~ Unknown
D?-i societ??ii aripi ?i le va arde pe rug.
~ Unknown
Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.
~ Marina Lewycka
We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits …
~ Marina Warner
Una cosa es entender intelectualmente la necesidad de cambiar y otra muy distinta es sentirse cómodo e ilusionado con dicho cambio.
~ Unknown
qué bueno que tengas el valor de ser distinto y no sucumbas al poder unánime
~ Mario Benedetti
En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.
~ Mario Benedetti
Es evidente que Dios me concedió un destino oscuro. Ni siquiera cruel. Simplemente oscuro. Es evidente que me concedió una tregua. Al principio, me resistí a creer que eso pudiera ser la felicidad. Me resistí con todas mis fuerzas, después me di por vencido y lo creí. Pero no era la felicidad, era sólo una tregua. Ahora estoy otra vez metido en mi destino. Y es más oscuro que antes, mucho más.
~ Mario Benedetti
Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay
~ Mario Benedetti
Terapia Para no sucumbir ante la tentación del precipicio el mejor tratamiento es el fornicio.
~ Mario Benedetti
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.
~ Mario Savio
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.
~ Marion Woodman
Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
The next day, Paris woke up to find its streets plastered with posters calling for a general strike.
~ Unknown
In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!
~ Marjane Satrapi
Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus.
~ Marjorie M. Liu
The path of least resistance never gets us where we want to go. Shortcuts always end up being cul-de-sacs. The key to spiritual growth is the willingness to go out of your way for God. You will find God in uncomfortable places at inconvenient times. But if you go out of your way for God, God will go out of His way for you. Crash the party!
~ Mark Batterson
You can't make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won't like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.
~ Mark Batterson
Praying hard is not the past of least resistance; it's usually the path of most resistance because we engage in spiritual warfare. In fact, when we begin interceding for others, we better make sure that others are interceding for us. We need a prayer circle that provides a prayer covering.
~ Mark Batterson