Resistance Quotes

• One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Why
  • Never
  • German

• I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Fame
  • Resistance

• It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Resistance
  • Beat
  • Teeth

• But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

  

  Wayne White
  • Anything
  • Nobody
  • Resistance

• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Resistance
  • Germany
  • Stopping

• I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Art
  • History
  • I Believe

• Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Smart
  • Key
  • Resistance

• It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Workout
  • Uplifting

• 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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Danger
  • Resistance
  • Tyranny

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

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Game
  • Now
  • Resistance

• Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Up
  • Today
  • Troops

• Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Doe
  • Resistance
  • Please Me

• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friendship
  • Sorrow
  • Autumn's wind

• When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Young

• Faith is the path of least resistance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Resistance
  • Least

• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Danger
  • Tyranny

• Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.

  

  John Hancock
  • Heaven
  • Individual
  • Social

• Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  

  Benjamin Crump
  • Violence
  • Justification
  • Inheritance

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

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Resistance
  • Negro
  • Good Will

• I'm all for the path of least resistance.

  

  Cody Lundin
  • Path
  • Resistance
  • Least

• I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Boy
  • Resistance
  • Promises

• Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

  

  Ulrike Meinhof
  • Happens
  • Resistance
  • Suits

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Resistance
  • Negro
  • Opposing

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