resistance Quotes

“Resist much, obey little.”

“Fortune . . . shows her power where valour has not prepared to resist her, and thither she turns her forces where she knows that barriers and defences have not been raised to constrain her.”

“Though the captives’ resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved and through dignity, life itself.”

“She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before, and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realize why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did.”

″‘Why did you do it anyway?‘he says. ‘I don’t know. To show them that I’m more than just a piece in their Games?’ I say.”

“It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.”

“Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance.”

“Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.”

“To be gritty is to resist complacency.”

“Weak things were often beautiful, weak things were never good.”

“Even the most gifted people and leaders are subject to feeling conflicted about ending things, so they resist.”

“I couldn’t believe it: but what I mean by that is that I couldn’t find any room for it anywhere inside of me. I had kept it outside me for a long time. I hadn’t wanted to know.”

“Some of the older folks resisted leaving right up to the end and had to have their bags packed for them and be physically lifted and shoved onto the buses.”

“I have fought fire with fire ... and I ought to have done it sooner! ”

“Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. ”

“I thought that if I did not eat and drink then death would simply follow, but in practice I found that thirst becomes such a frantic obsession that it takes a greater resolve than mine to resist it.”

″ We can never eliminate Resistance. It will never go away. But we can outsmart it, and we can enlist allies that are as powerful as it is.”

“Research can become resistance. We want to work, not prepare for work.”

″ If you’ve got a head, you’ve got a voice of Resistance inside it.”

“What you resist will persist; what you befriend, you will transcend.”

“If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.”

“Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.”

“Stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.”

“My idea is that every specific body strives to become master over all space and to extend its force (--its will to power:) and to thrust back all that resists its extension. But it continually encounters similar efforts on the part of other bodies and ends by coming to an arrangement (“union”) with those of them that are sufficiently related to it: thus they then conspire together for power. And the process goes on.”

“All human authority, however organized, must have confined limits, or insolence and oppression will prove the offspring of its grandeur, and the difficulty or rather impossibility of escape prevents resistance.”

″‘A motto just came to me,’ Jeremy said. ‘Resist, adapt, never give up.‘”

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

“Aiight, listen up: where I come from, resistance is existence, homie.”

“The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”

“He crawled in among the bales of rope where I was hiding and wait for father to decide what to do. Father was thinking. He knew that they would take me, even though that meant splitting us up. Trying to resist would only make things worse so he made up his mind to hide too.”

“Yet there are also deeper forces behind our resistance to rethinking. Questioning ourselves makes the world more unpredictable.”