Quotes About Resistance

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

The enemy will not perish of himself. Neither will the Chinese reactionaries nor the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism in China step down from the stage of history of their own accord.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.