Quotes About Resistance

It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar. Her body wants something, and she is denying

Když se vám zdá, že odporuje, pak vy odporujete. Když nespolupracuje, ptejte se sami sebe, jak vy s ním spolupracujete.

He darted a look at the uncovered basket behind me, saw what I was eating, and glared at me. "That's appalling," he said. "They're wonderful!" I said. "They're all coming ripe." "All the better to turn you into a tree ," he said. "I don't want to be a tree yet," I said.

However, when pesticides are sprayed over large agricultural areas, they kill a large fraction of the total insect population, ensuring that the hardy survivors breed only with other hardy survivors; the very next generation may display resistance. The more extensive the agricultural use, the more likely bugs are to evolve resistance rapidly, and the less effective the pesticide is likely to be when you need it for disease control.

The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

To Robert Fulton: What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

All these were things that at present seemed like a dream, because Fascism was in power and Fascism wanted people to let themselves crumble away.

the body evolved to gather vegetables, not to become them, and who resists being absorbed entirely by the creamy perilife that is the desk-computer dyad, may decide, Feh, I'll forgo the pills, I'll take a walk, I'll lift a weight, I'll visit my daughter and offer to babysit her kids right now.

The old men with their traditions challenged Refrained from tears.

Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

Ever since I was a child I used to hear my father say: 'If the price we pay for freedom is high, we pay a much higher price if we accept to be slaves.

Throughout the thirty years of our life together the authorities have given us no respite. They were after us all the time. If we published a magazine, they closed it down. If we started a project they prevented us from carrying it through. If we established an association they told us we were breaking the laws and banned its activities. Now they were driving us out of the country.

My life means their death. My death means their life. And life for them means more crime, more plunder, unlimited booty.

You can't ban books, people will find them

You never know whether this is a form of instinctive blackmail, and therefore, to be resisted, or whether it is real illness brought on in the other person by what you live by and believe in.

If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!

So that means about twelve billion people dead. And the remaining six billion ruled by a government that would even like to control their thoughts.

It is in fact a harsh reality that he who believes killers are an aberration is also he who has the boot planted firmly on his neck;