Resistance Quotes - Page 4

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

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

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything.

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

The line of least resistance is to most people the lifeline.

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

It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it. War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.