Quotes about Resistance
There shall never be quietness for the Kingdom of Christ in this world, because it will always be infested and troubled by its enemies.
- John Calvin
All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.
- John Calvin
There is no end and no limit to the obstacles of the man who wants to pursue what is right and at the same time shrinks back from self-denial.
- John Calvin
I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.
- John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
- John Calvin
since Satan is always breathing down our necks, and is ready and scheming to plunge us into a thousand perils, we ought to be no less watchful and on our guard.
- John Calvin
Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
- John Donne
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.
- James Madison
No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
- Jack Kerouac
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
- F Scott Fitzgerald