Resist/background

Famous quotes containing the words resist and/or background:

“I can resist everything except temptation.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)