Resistance Quotes - Page 13

Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible.

When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made.

it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Today one might be tempted to say that patriotism is the last refuge of the tribal religion dedicated to the worship of German, French, English and Russian Gods of Battles. Surely such a religion has nothing in common with the religion which counsels for the disciple non-resistance, unstinted forgiveness, and the elimination of all rancor?

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

There's this resistance to actually talking to people who are smarter than you about things and I don't know why that is.

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Without resistance you can do nothing

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.

If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.