The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance pain torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it by resistance to evil buy it by compromise with evil.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite hard and resistant.
But such is the irresistable nature of truth that all it asks and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures but the foolish to be a slave to them.
We may brave human laws but we cannot resist natural ones.
As long as the number one worry for people keeping them up at nights is whether they're going to have a job in the morning then they are less likely to resist unfair changes or unfair treatment or cuts in real pay at work.
Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know but they do.
Love is easy and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea someone says something and you're in love.
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance especially if one had no choice.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.
Such highly qualitative leadership is demanded especially in the realm of the fostering of right international relations. Here the demand is simply irresistible.
The problem is is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.