Resistance Quotes

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

Resistance really takes the shape, for me, in voices in my head telling me why I can't do something or why I should put it off for another day, procrastinate for another day.

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

We're wrong if we think we're the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Many pedestrians have been maimed or killed at the intersection of Resistance and Commerce.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

The most important thing people can do is refuse to have any resistance to staying connected to their source. People resist being able to attract abundance into their lives.

I believe in civil disobedience among other forms of resistance in times when it's called for.

The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow

If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

Resistance is NOT futile.

Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

Taking the path with the least resistance does NOT mean take any opportunity that comes to you. Some opportunities are traps!

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

Rise to the challenge of bringing your dreams to life! Do not be discouraged by resistance, be nourished by it. Success is the experience of rising to the level of your true greatness.

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.

What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.

The glorification of hatred is predicated on a foundation of fear-induced ignorance venomous to haters and those they believe they hate.

When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism

The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

Violence only attacks the body, but it is non-violence that has the power to influence the soul and reshape it towards a peaceful future.