Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity. — Dorothy West Copy Share Image
“Even a strong man had no way left him to fight the prison machine, except perhaps suicide. But is suicide really resistance?… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go… — Mike D Copy Share Image
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.” — Courtney Kirchoff Copy Share Image
Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The thing about collaborators is that you don't know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. [In… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in… — Dave McGinnis Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“No successes we might have are guaranteed to last as long as industrial civilization stands. Conversely, most of our losses are effectively… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Ruskin's much-derided moral theory of art was part of an attempt to show that this human activity, which we value so highly,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“While success takes hard work, there’s something to be said for taking the path of least resistance.” — Julie Ortolon Copy Share Image
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. — Henry Seymour Conway Copy Share Image
There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance. — Akhmad Kadyrov Copy Share Image
“Resistance is a repelling force. It’s negative. Its aim is to shove us away, distract us, prevent us from doing our work.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Most pesticides lose their efficacy after a few years, because of pest resistance to pesticides. This is why companies go on changing… — M. S. Swaminathan Copy Share Image
Negative emotion is your indicator of resistance, while positive emotion is your indicator of allowance. And they are on the same meter:… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance. — Robert Conklin Copy Share Image
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