Quotes about Resistance
It's not men who cope with death; they resist, try to fight back and get their brains trampled out in consequence; where women just flank it, envelop it in one soft and instantaneous confederation of unresistance like cotton batting or cobwebs, already de-stingered and harmless, not merely reduced to size and usable but even useful like a penniless bachelor or spinster connection always available to fill an empty space or conduct an extra guest down to dinner.
- William Faulkner
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.
- Heinrich Heine
The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels cannot prevail against it.
- Henry A. Wallace
I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.
- Henry David Thoreau
It's hard to change adults. They are going to do what they are going to do.
- Henry Rollins
How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?
- Leonard Ravenhill
Stephen raised his hands and shouted, "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you!" Ezra saw lances of genuine pain stab each of the men seated at the Council table. He felt again the power of his own guilt and regret and distress. Stephen finished with, "You now have become the betrayers and murderers, you who have received the law by the direction of angels and have not kept it!
- Janette Oke
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
- Steven Pressfield
Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.
- Steven Pressfield
Every successful work of God must have opposition.
- Billy Graham
Whatever plan one makes, there is a hidden difficulty somewhere.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Fighting evil, it's hard work.
- George W. Bush