Resistance Quotes - Page 12

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Any resistance is not only normal but necessary-it is part of the creative process.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest and resistance (reprinted in For Reasons of State).

In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the centers of the organized antiwar resistance movement.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.

Out of resistance comes strength.

Anarchists should get together who agree, and develop their gifts at a critical point, in a critical place, and form genuine affinity groups in areas where they can have certain results, notable results - not move into areas of great resistance where they're almost certain to be crushed, defeated, demoralized.

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

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

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

In no country and under no circumstances is it possible to launch resistance unless the government approves of this.

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

To fly, we must have resistance.

I've never been one to say I know exactly that we're in the last days, but there's some things happening these days, both good and bad, that make me wonder if we may be heading into the final generation. One of the good things that's happening is that little by little we're taking the gospel to the whole world. But at the same time there is this resistance.

A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.

The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.