Resistance Quotes
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Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first.
Wolfgang Schauble -
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.
Elizabeth Grosz
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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.
Tim Robbins -
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
Tim Bishop -
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 -
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
Thomas Kuhn -
The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
Ahmed Yassin -
Let your courage mount with difficulties. There would be no will if there were no resistance.
Nilakanta Sri Ram
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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.
Elizabeth Wein -
Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.
Benjamin Carson -
All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
Elizabeth Hawes -
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.
Nikki Gemmell -
I have a natural resistance to being humiliated.
Tom Conti -
Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.
Elia Suleiman
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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
Nathan Rosenberg -
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
Seth Godin -
Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
Gautama Buddha -
Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.
Judith Butler -
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
Steven Pressfield -
What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
Chip Heath
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Any characteristic that you can't stand in another person is an aspect of you that you can't stand in yourself. Once you discover that this characteristic is also in you, your resistance towards the other person gets replaced with compassion.
Bill Ferguson -
Where there is power, there is resistance.
Michel Foucault -
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 -
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.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery