Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.[È più facile resistere all’inizio che alla fine.]
If more Africans had eaten more missionaries, the Continent would be in better shape.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of iron or of gold.[Sæt en ørn i bur og den vil bide i stængerne, enten de så er af jern eller guld.]
A man who is suffering up to the limit of his capacity can seldom put up much of a fight.
