Quotes About Resistance

If we do not sacrifice the natural to the spiritual, the natural life will resist and defy the life of the Son of God in us and will produce continual turmoil. This is always the result of an undisciplined spiritual nature. We go wrong because we stubbornly refuse to discipline ourselves physically, morally, or mentally.

The fight against Nature is hopeless and yet — it will be fought out to the bitter end.

Heute leben wir so widerstandslos unter der Wirkung dieser geistigen Artillerie, dass kaum jemand den inneren Abstand gewinnt, um sich das Ungeheuerliche dieses Schauspiels klarzumachen. Der Wille zur Macht in rein demokratischer Verkleidung hat sein Meisterstück damit vollendet, dass dem Freiheitsgefühl der Objekte mit der vollkommensten Knechtung, die es je gegeben hat, sogar noch geschmeichelt wird.

degree of maturity in the level of personal identification with social, political, or religious ideologies; second, an ability to resist regression when subject to group processes; and third, an ability to adhere to a value system of one's own choosing as opposed to submitting to conventionality.

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be.

All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

Never fight an inanimate object.

Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.

But I found it wasn't so easy to just turn off a crush when I wanted to. I vaguely remembered some quote I'd read in English class about the flesh being willing, even when the spirit wasn't.

alumbrar la nueva era tiene enfrente, siempre, el freno descomunal de los privilegiados.

Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

América para la humanidad", oponiéndose a lo de "América para los americanos" del presidente Monroe, interpretando el sentimiento patriótico de resistir a la prepotencia imperial del país del norte, pero también enunciando la voluntad de la dirigencia argentina de continuar dentro del área de influencia británica que tan pingües ganancias le seguía reportando.

Vendrán de París las modas y los libros; los pasteles de Hungría, la ilustración de Viena; peluqueros a bandadas, cocineros en montón. Se ordenará que los chicos se olviden del español, y que las beatas recen en la lengua de Voltaire, pero sólo la lengua, no la lectura, porque esa seguirá siendo perniciosa.

Aconteça o que acontecer, continuaremos sendo uma pequena dor de cabeça sempre que cheguemos até esta Assembléia ou a qualquer outra, porque estamos dispostos a chamar as coisas pelos seus devidos nomes e a dizer que os representantes dos Estados Unidos são os agentes da repressão no mundo inteiro.

Só se é revolucionário quando se está disposto a deixar todas as comodidades para ir lutar em outro país.

No hay comunidad más pacífica que los yaquis: cuando combatieron, y lo hicieron millares de veces, actuaron protegiendo los límites de sus tierras, atacando a invasores que intentaban apropiarse de su mundo.

Ante la locura, la contralocura.

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!

The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain

rid of the Jews and turned them in to the Germans

You dinnae have me yet!