Quotes about Resistance
The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries.
- Thomas Jefferson
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.
- Thomas Jefferson
Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.
- Thomas a Kempis
Credulity is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain the truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything.
- Thomas Paine
We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?
- Thomas Watson
An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.
- Thomas Watson
When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.
- Thomas Watson
They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.
- Thomas Watson
Better is that temptation which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.
- Thomas Watson
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
- Joyce Meyer
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
- Muqtada al Sadr
And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now. That, my friends, is the secret to a joyful life.
- Oprah Winfrey