Quotes about Resistance
There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive. I should fight for my liberty as my strength lasted, and when the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
— Harriet Tubman
A few of the villagers began to stone us and our children.
— Heidi Baker
Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.
— Heinrich Heine
Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too
— Heinrich Heine
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
— St. Jerome
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes neccessity.
— St. Augustine
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— St. Augustine
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.
— St. Augustine
But woe is thee, thou torrent of human custom! Who shall stand against thee?
— St. Augustine
Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.
— St. Augustine
The meek are those who yield to acts of wickedness, and do not resist evil, but overcome evil with good.
— St. Augustine
Behold with what companions I walked the streets of Babylon, and wallowed in the mire thereof, as if in a bed of spices and precious ointments. And that I might cleave the faster to its very centre, the invisible enemy trod me down, and seduced me, for that I was easy to be seduced.
— St. Augustine