#resist

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#even #fair #heed #not fair #resist

In Paris, I found myself surrounded by Germans; they were all over the place. They played music, and people would go and listen to them! All along rue de Rivoli, as far as you could see from place de la Concorde, there were enormous swastika banners five or six floors high. I just thought, This is impossible. Imagine that someone comes into your home—someone you don’t like—he settles down, gives orders: “Here we are, we’re at home now; you must obey.” To me that was unbearable. ↗

— Pearl Witherington Cornioley

#nazism #world-war-ii #home

Persistence wears down resistance. ↗

— William J Federer

#logic #logical-thinking #persist #persistance #resist

Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#capital #clear #consider #did #disaster

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. ↗

— Charles Atlas

#best #body #own #resistance #safest

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#job #make #revolution #writer

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. ↗

— Otto Dix

#beginning #brought #cause #did #dreadful

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#allowed #any #binds #broken #chains

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#away #cannot #down #force #him

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#contend #continually #creating #destruction #goes