Human Resistance Quotes

'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the planet Psychlo have conquered our planet in only nine minutes.

We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

It seemed like an interesting movie [Independence Day], and I thought I had a take on the part that was going to be unique. That doesn't happen to me very often.

My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

'Skyline' is an alien invasion film that really takes an interesting look at the genre. The writers did an amazing job of creating a new take at how life from other planets come and plan to invade Earth.

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.