Resistance Quotes - Page 14

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

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

Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.

She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance--shattered it. He had let the walls down when he'd thought she was gone, and there was no time to build them back up.

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

It is one of history's great tragedies that American conservatism, born in part in resistance to Soviet torture, should end by endorsing it in America, by Americans.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

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