Quotes about Resistance

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

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

Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

Only the man who says no is free

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.