Resistance Quotes · Page 20

“The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will…

— Emma Goldman

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the…

— Learned Hand

Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you…

— Adyashanti

Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was…

— Margaret Atwood

If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external…

— Eckhart Tolle

Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy…

— Scott Adams

“The herd is the larger mass, the mindless portion that wanders off the cliff; the mob is the subset and the moshpit…

— Criss Jami

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

— Michael Hardt

Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when…

— Rudolf Rocker

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way…

— Vivienne Westwood

It may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess,…

— Gene Wolfe

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

— Al Sharpton

Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America…

— Rohini Nilekani

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer…

— Ulrike Meinhof

There will be no recognition of Israel and there will be no security for the occupation and colonization forces. Resistance will remain…

— Khaled Mashal

“The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell…

— Steven Pressfield

Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a…

— Leo Tolstoy

“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemicthat I am witnessing someand experiencing some,a diminished ability to deal with…

— Shellen Lubin

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

— Henry Highland Garnet

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in…

— Guy Verhofstadt

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to…

— Edward Abbey

All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to…

— Lysander Spooner

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand…

— Marianne Moore