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At 8 o'clock in the morning a dense throng of workers - almost 10,000 - assembled in the square, which the police had already occupied… — Unknown Author
It is because peaceful agitation and passive resistance are effective that I uphold them, and it is because force strengthens tyranny that I condemn it.… — Benjamin Tucker
Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is… — Nikki Gemmell
It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know. — T.D. Jakes
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and… — Thomas Paine
Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein
The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored. — Percy Cerutty
When resistance is gone, the demons are gone. — Pema Chodron
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs… — Prince Charles
The tendency to follow the path of least resistance guarantees failure in life. — Brian Tracy
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central state. It has… — Bruce D. Porter
... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal. — Emma Goldman
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. — Marianne Moore
Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath… — Aristotle
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry. — Kevin Bacon
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching. — Jane Fonda
I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal.… — Eugene Ionesco
We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems,… — Marjorie Garber
The greatness of non-violent resistance is that even as man is faced with tyranny, and the resulting suffering, he responds to hate with love, to… — Liu Xia
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself,… — Madonna Ciccone
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin to see the… — Ram Dass
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can. — Danny Glover
The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America.… — Danny Glover

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