Resistance Quotes - Page 5

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.

You must understand that I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, a defier of the SS and the Nazis, all at once. One's first steps are always small: I had begun by hiding food under a fence

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

Wolf's wool is the best of wool, / but it cannot be sheared because / the wolf will not comply.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.