Resistance Quotes

• 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
  • War
  • Should
  • Cost

• Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.

  

  Judith Butler
  • War
  • Peace
  • Resistance

• There are surely many ways that media select and contextualise events determine the boundaries of public thinking happens, but we can note at the most obvious level the way in which forms of resistance or violence get cast as "conflicts" that assume two sides that are fighting only against one another.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Fighting
  • Violence
  • Boundaries

• In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters and every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we're going. How we build moments and movements, how we come up with the vision we want of a progressive left - that's what comes in after.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • America
  • Movements
  • Muslim

• 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
  • World
  • Love
  • Move

• 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
  • Compassion
  • Aspect
  • Characteristic

• The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Resistance
  • Avoided

• The single biggest reason why the vast majority of people go nowhere in life is because they don't or won't take risks. They take the easy way out, the path of least resistance. You don't make it big that way. Ever.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Risks
  • Resistance
  • Majority

• The last thing I wanted to do was act, because it was the path of least resistance.

  

  Wyatt Russell
  • Wanted
  • Because
  • Resistance

• To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Good
  • Finish
  • Resistance

• Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Happy
  • Voice
  • Supporting

• Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Choice
  • Making
  • Obedience

• “At last Mouth said, “Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violent. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Peaceful
  • Obedience
  • Violent

• When you're looking so hard to get on your path, you're putting up resistance that keeps you from finding it.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Path
  • Hard
  • Findings

• The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Way
  • Impossible
  • Resistance

• The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Difficult
  • Resistance
  • Nobility

• 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
  • Answers
  • Vibrations
  • Contradictory

• Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Learned
  • Resistance

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