Resistance Quotes

The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion.

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.

There's something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It's pretty much for white supremacists.

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

I rolled myself up into a tight ball of resistance and it was thus that I went through my school years.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

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.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

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.

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness.

To fly we have to have resistance.