Resistance Quotes

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

The natural man cannot but resist the Lord's offering to help him; yet that resistance is infallibly overcome in the elect, by converting grace.

I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance.

Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

One of the ego's favorite paths of resistance is to fill you with doubt.

They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance.