Resistance Quotes
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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.
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.
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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.
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The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
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You need a little resistance-something to fight against.
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History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such domination. Which is another way of saying that history, the past, is larger than the present, and is the ever-growing and ongoing possibility of resistance to the present’s imposed values, the possibility of futures not unlike the present, futures that resist and transform what dominates the present.
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What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
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Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
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In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
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Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
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Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
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Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it
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Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
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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.
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The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
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Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
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Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.
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Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.
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Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
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Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.
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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.
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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.
