Quotes About Resistance

As the old saying goes, negroes are nonviolent with those who are violent toward them and violent toward those who are nonviolent toward them. Selfish

Being under a tyrant, the nation will cease to expand, development and life will get tougher and worst as time passes by.

Compared to the dog, the wolf is a true symbol of freedom or of those who refused to be spoon-fed.

Humans becoming immune to temptation itself will force the devil to find himself unemployed.

Many nations are free by name, but they are still living under tyranny.

Sometimes, we resist to accept different views or break away from the kinds of nonsense that we hold dear to ourselves.

The biggest battle than all the world wars put together is when the mind wants something while the body craves for something else as well.

The devil still rebelled, despite having lived in paradise for many years.

The takeover of the Amerindians appears to them as the beginning of the Apocalypse.

To be married, you must become tolerant and avoid most of the feelings of resisting in every situation.

In school Set was taught that art was resistance. . . . Water follows the line of least resistance. . . . It has shaped some of the most impressive forms on the face of the earth.

When people with power see things happen of which they disapprove, they drop bombs and send in tanks. When people without power see things happen of which they disapprove, they smash store windows, blow themselves up in crowded places, and fly planes into buildings. The fact that both methods have proved remarkably unsuccessful at changing things doesn't stop people from going on in the same way.

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may become more, not less, fierce.

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.

within the institution, breaking out into new worlds, leaving behind the shrine which had become a place of worldly power and resistance to his purposes.

Those twin beliefs give rise not to a meek acquiescence to injustice in the world but to a robust determination to oppose it. English

To retrain the imagination and the natural impulses to resist the murky short-term delights of the pagan world is harder still. To make and sustain marriages of genuine mutual submission is perhaps hardest of all. Compromises and second-best solutions are easy. To go for the full version of discipleship is to sign on for spiritual warfare.

In fact, the resistance to such claims may well come from the constant impulse to resist the Lordship of Jesus, the one through whom it is accomplished. Paul lived in a world where other 'lords' reigned supreme, and resented alternative candidates for their position. So do we. ROMANS

But if there had been an earlier "victory," when did it take place? Matthew, Mark, and Luke all supply the answer: at the beginning of Jesus's public career, during his forty-day fast in the desert, when the satan tried to distract him, to persuade him to grasp the right goal by the wrong means, and so to bring him over to his side (Matt. 4:1–11; Mark 1:12–13; Luke 4:1–13).

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

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Most of those men don't want to sleep with you," he said in blunt rebuttal. "I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.