Quotes about Resistance

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

share any mental or physical opposition that you are experiencing.

Many Christians in the Western church attempt to live as though the devil does not exist, having

In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.

Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, cheek it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may be some fault even in this obedience; but the fault thus committed is venial; it is a fall, but a fall on the knees which may terminate in prayer.

Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.

Invading armies can be resisted, invading ideas cannot be.