Quotes About Resilience

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.

Black people are the only segment in American society that is defined by its weakest elements. Every other segment is defined by its highest achievement. We have to turn that around.

A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within.

I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.