Best Resistance Wisdom
790 Resistance quotes by 552 unique authors
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To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon…
— Eckhart Tolle
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What causes homophobia? What is it that makes the heterosexual man worry about this? I think it's because deep down all men know that we…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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You are about to be told one more time that you are America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they do to valuable…
— Utah Phillips
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Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
— Seth Godin
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A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no…
— H. L. Mencken
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Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast…
— Gerry Adams
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced…
— A. R. Ammons
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It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.
— Eckhart Tolle
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
— F. H. Bradley
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The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is…
— Horace Mann
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Cause the profit system follows the path of least resistance and following the path of least resistance is what makes the river crooked. Hmmmm.
— Utah Phillips
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It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist…
— Scott Ritter
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Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might…
— Nathan Rosenberg
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Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.
— Michael Hardt
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My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
— Charles Atlas
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The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are…
— Mordechai Anielewicz
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One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
— King Albert II
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Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe…
— Kelly Miller
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It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing…
— Deepak Chopra
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By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
— Eckhart Tolle
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