Resistance Quotes
Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.
I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.
Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance in their North America.
Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.
All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.
Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.
I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.
In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves to be murdered without resistance.
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.
Many people who help me encounter a lot of resistance from other people and from forces.
The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
The heart of the matter is that there is nothing the matter with our hearts. It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire.
In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability.
The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect.
EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.
For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.
There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.
Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.
The resistance to black-and-white is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.
I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.
Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.
My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.
I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.
Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake.
Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.
Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.
The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.
A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.