Quotes about Resistance
So the verse means, "Do not let the age in which you live force you into its scheme of thinking and behaving."
— James Montgomery Boice
Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.
— James Carse
The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.
— James Carse
Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters.
— Margaret Atwood
At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.
— Kamasi Washington
To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.
— Karl Barth
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
— Epictetus
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
— Mahatma Gandhi