The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together.… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If you throw one stone, it’s a punishable offence. If 1,000 stones are thrown, it’s political action. If you set a car… — Ulrike Meinhof Copy Share Image
You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People can say what they want, but historically, feminism in the Dominican Republic has been extremely strong. I guess the best way… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance - shattered it. He had… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
I'm just challenging white supremacy at its intellectual heart every day. It's a pedagogy that I deploy against some of the most… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else.… — Robert E. Quinn Copy Share Image
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
There's something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Nor ought we ever to allow any growing power to acquire such a degree of strength as to be able to tear… — Polybius Copy Share Image
All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions. — Maria Borges Copy Share Image
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
My mother began her political journey as a symbol of hope and resistance to the repressive, regressive, Islamist regime of General Ziaul… — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Copy Share Image
“The attitude of resistance is one of weakness inasmuch as it only faces an enemy. It has its back to all that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
We saw a true wave election in 2010 for Republicans. There was no such repudiation offered by Resistance Democrats in 2018. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body. — Alex Zanardi Copy Share Image
“Here was a people. A family. A faith. Her people. Her family. Her faith. Here was a silence broken.” — Ryan Graudin Copy Share Image
The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that… — Kyle Cease Copy Share Image