Resistance Quotes
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Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.
Adyashanti -
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
Mindy Kaling
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So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
Moshe Sharett -
Any racism or barriers that may be put up, you get a tremendous sense of resistance. The more you push me, the greater I am. You can't hold me down. And the church helped me do that. My family helped that. The whole issue of struggle is critical in my life. Resistance, finding ways to resist. That does not mean you do somebody in to get it. No, it means finding ways to be human in what you do, but making sure that you get it done.
Cecil Williams -
Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.
Wolfgang Ostwald -
The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme.
Mahatma Gandhi -
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
Cheryl Clarke -
For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.
Walter Schellenberg
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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her.
Mahatma Gandhi -
[People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
Niall Ferguson -
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
Seth Godin -
We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.
Muqtada al Sadr -
You need a little resistance-something to fight against.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
Muqtada al Sadr -
Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.
Steven Seagal -
I understand that a lot of people who use phrases like resistance have found my work valuable. But my job is to look at difficult problems of national security in ways that may be useful to policymakers and the public.
Benjamin Wittes
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But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
Bono U2 -
Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.
William Peter Blatty -
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights. It imparts cadence and direction. You feel like you and the boats are one, you feel that no obstacle will put up any more resistance than the water does to your oars, you feel that hard work and grit and mental toughness will always win it for you in the end.
Barry S. Strauss -
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