Resistance Quotes

Resistance Quote of the day

Where there is power, there is resistance.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The deep places in our lives - places of resistance and embrace - are reached only by stories, by images, metaphors and phrases that line out the world differently, apart from our fear and hurt.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

Nothing gets stronger without resistance.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain our strategic option.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.