Resistance Quotes

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

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

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.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.

They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.