Resistance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
-- Abdallah II -
Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance
-- Ahmed Yassin -
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.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
-- Alain Badiou -
A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.
-- Alanis Morissette -
The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
-- Aldrich Ames -
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
-- Alexandra Paul -
Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.
-- Ali Vincent -
Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.
-- Alison Thompson -
He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.
-- Aminu Kano -
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.
-- Amira Hass -
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
-- Andre Gide -
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out...
-- Assata Shakur -
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
-- Assata Shakur -
Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
-- Bell Hooks -
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance,
-- Benjamin Carson -
Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
-- Bill Nye -
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
-- Billy Corgan -
You can’t go the distance with too much resistance
-- Billy Joel -
The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
-- Bob Barr -
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life.
-- Brian Tracy -
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
-- Carl Jung -
My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
-- Charles Atlas -
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.
-- Charles James Fox -
I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.
-- Cheech Marin -
What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
-- Chip Heath -
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
-- Claude M. Bristol -
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
-- Dan Millman -
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
-- Danny Glover -
Reading (...) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.
-- David L. Ulin -
Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.
-- Deepak Chopra -
When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
-- Dennis Quaid -
The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.
-- Derrick Jensen -
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.
-- Dorothy West -
Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?
-- Eckhart Tolle -
Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
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.
-- Edward Said -
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.
-- Eileen Caddy -
It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.
-- Elizabeth Wein -
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
-- Ernestine Rose -
When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.
-- Esther Hicks -
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.
-- Evangelista Torricelli -
The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
-- Evo Morales -
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
-- Frank Herbert -
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
-- Frederick Douglass -
Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
-- Frederick William Faber -
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
-- Fredric Jameson -
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.
-- Guy Finley -
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.
-- Henri Matisse -
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
-- Henry Highland Garnet -
When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .
-- Henry Miller -
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.
-- Henry Seymour Conway -
Australia and New Zealand are now threatened by the might of the Imperial Japanese forces, and both of them should know that any resistance is futile.
-- Hideki Tojo -
The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
-- Hubert Selby, Jr. -
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.
-- Ida B. Wells -
You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence
-- Irene Gut Opdyke -
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
-- Isaiah Berlin -
I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
-- J. Cole -
When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.
-- James Allen -
Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!
-- James Melvin Washington -
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.
-- John Archibald Wheeler -
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.
-- John Dewey -
When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
-- Jon Gordon -
I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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.
-- Julia Bacha -
I had originally done a production called The Resistance. It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.
-- Katrina Law -
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
-- Kevin Bacon -
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.
-- Khaled Mashal -
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.
-- Kyle Cease -
Never settle for the path of least resistance
-- Lee Ann Womack -
There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.
-- Leonard Jacobson -
The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of resistance and of renewed hope to turn ever back to the struggle in the face of the defeats of the oppressed.
-- Leonardo Boff -
Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.
-- Lester Levenson -
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
-- Leymah Gbowee -
No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.
-- Li Mu -
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.
-- Linton Kwesi Johnson -
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
-- Livy -
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
-- Lois McMaster Bujold -
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.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance,
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
I've always had bad posture, and Pilates makes me feel taller and reminds me to keep my shoulders back. And hiking isn't just about doing cardio, it's also when I can get my 'me time' to be alone with my thoughts. After Pilates I should do some cardio, and after hiking, I need to do some resistance training.
-- Mandy Moore
