Resistance Quotes

The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

I think politics are a part of life, so I have no resistance to it, but it's not something I set out to do.

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

To fly, we must have resistance.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

Sit back and get some sleep. Oh great. So if we have an accident and I'm asleep my resistance toward fighting death will be down and I'll wake up in a morgue.

Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

Out of resistance comes strength.

To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.

Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

If only gravity were working, the path would be symmetrical, it is the wind resistance that produces the tragic curve.

The present Indian government, however, is neither able or willing to accept the challenge and to provide the leadership in breaking the resistance of urban and rural interests.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

You overcome the logical resistance to change by proving that a new approach actually works, usually on a small scale.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.

You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.

What looks like resistance in many cases is rational responses to incentives and ingrained resource-allocation processes.

Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy.