Quotes about Resistance

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Truth and the hatred of truth come into our world together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.

We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.

We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.