Resistance Quotes

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

Nothing gets stronger without resistance.

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

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.

An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.