Resistance Quotes · Page 32

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

— Catherine Camus

“your brain is structured to take the path of least resistance, because that's the less threatening way to go—but”

— David DiSalvo

The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.

— Ludwig von Mises

“I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting.”

— Juliet Marillier

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

— Pema Chodron

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

— Donald Miller

A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a…

— Coco Chanel

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

— Robert E. Ornstein

In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism -…

— Fredric Jameson

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like…

— Alan Moore

Writing is my way of diving deep into an issue. My approach is to watch, read and listen - sometimes for years…

— Paul Hawken

“The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you…

— Steve Maraboli

The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what…

— Sam Hunt

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a…

— Eugene Ionesco

“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to…

— Irvine Welsh

Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for…

— Kim Hyesoon

Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just,…

— Mao Zedong

Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance…

— David Bayles

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

— Emma Goldman

About what mainly constituted what you ask, it was something other. It was just a certain inclination to meet people. And as…

— Martin Buber

The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong…

— Napoleon Hill

I would like to trust and believe that the American spirit of resistance will win the day, but I keep having to…

— Naomi Wolf

In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and…

— Eve Ensler

The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a…

— William Stringfellow

In misfortune we often mistake dejection for constancy; we bear it without daring to look on it; like cowards, who suffer themselves…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going…

— Kevin Feige

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

— Paul Keres

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated…

— Ahmed Yassin

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but…

— Henri Matisse

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

— Arundhati Roy

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

— David O. McKay

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

— Eckhart Tolle

There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to…

— Walter Mosley

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even…

— Ida B. Wells

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I…

— William James

The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.

— Muqtada al Sadr

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

— Sun Tzu