Quotes About Resistance

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

Unhand me, gentlemen,By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

And sometimes we are devils to ourselvesWhen we will tempt the frailty of our powers,Presuming on their changeful potency.

Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em;Thought is free.

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide;It boots not to resist both wind and tide.

I were better to be eaten to death with rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

It goes much against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?

Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back.

We see which way the stream of time doth runAnd are enforc'd from our most quiet sphereBy the rough torrent of occasion.

Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.

William Shakespeare

I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

Now, infidel, I have thee on the hip.

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

Corrie ten Boom stated, "The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when get busy. But he trembles when we pray especially when we pray together.

Andrew Bonar puts it, "The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.

For those who were openly hostile toward her, no explanation would be understood.

if they watched the soldiers and opposed them everywhere, the whites could do nothing.