#resist

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#cannot #ideas #invasion #resist

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#caused #effort #england #growth #immense

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#doubt #fool #going #greatest #greatest obstacle

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#body #continue #eternity #force #motion

The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South. ↗

— David F. Houston

#cold #during #especially #heavy #particular

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#comparatively #creativity #easy #formulaic #generating

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#broken #had #his #johnson #man

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#bullets #country #down #everyone #fact

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. ↗

— David Byrne

#been #camera #i #landscapes #learned