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
“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
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
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
The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was… — Charlie Fink Copy Share Image
Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of… — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Those who have chosen the path of least resistance in life, who cannot bear to bring themselves to make a stern value-judgment… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of… — Michael Carter Copy Share Image
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I come to the categorical conclusion that precisely at this moment we must give battle to the Black Hundred clergy in the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The word "surrender" is often interpreted as giving up, as weakness, as admitting defeat. Although this is one way to use the… — David Deida 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
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
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
“While success takes hard work, there’s something to be said for taking the path of least resistance.” — Julie Ortolon Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance. — Ti-Grace Atkinson Copy Share Image
Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it. — Anonymous 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
I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along… — Ani DiFranco 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
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
Life gets busy and we choose the path of least resistance when it comes to bringing up our children. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
The features that have made plastic so important in the global market are the same ones that make it such a pervasive… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation. — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
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