#resist

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#drained #empire #great #idlers #into

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#anarchy #because #believe #bully #gandhi

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#novel #resist #tell #urge #you

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#huge #inquiry #interests #languages #national

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#just #more #must #resist #stand

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#ally #attacked #been #cases #enemy

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#advanced technology #after #allowing #architecture #buildings

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#account #acquired #brought #call #day

When I'm in the U.K. I can't resist Maltesers and Twiglets - the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can't get them easily, which is probably a good thing. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#combination #easily #evil #get #good