Resistance Quotes - Page 9

Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.

We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

Any act of violence creates resentment and resistance, because humans were meant to be free.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

The invasion of Lebanon by Israel .. is a monstrous injustice. I side with the resistance to that injustice. Hizbollah is leading that resistance. I do not hesitate to say .. that I glorify that resistance. I glorify the Hizbollah national resistance movement, and I glorify the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change