#resist

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#moment #resistance #temptation #victory

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

#change #changes #fear #form #i

I asked him if he wanted to play music but he refused. He said that the only thing he wanted to hear was the pleasure of my moans. ↗

— Shanora Williams

#nolan #resist #music

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#change

There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last. ↗

— David T. Dellinger

#courage #justice #resistance #courage

The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type. ↗

— Edward Conlon

#bullet-resistant #bulletproof #bulletproof-vest #death #job-hazards

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window. ↗

— Jim Norton

#forgiveness #leaderless #molotov #noremorse #resistance

Resistance is common to the unusual. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #resistance #unusual #life

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ↗

— Malcolm X

#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

If you limit your choice only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#potential #resistance