Quotes About Resistance

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

There's a line in the picture where he (Johnny - The Wild One) snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

To fly we have to have resistance.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.

The fates lead him who will; him who won't they drag.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper.