Quotes About Obstruction

You can't help a man who won't be helped. (p. 364)

I was now looking at a new kind of liberalism, one that willingly censored people and punished voices, obstructed opinions and blocked viewpoints.

We are all having to move beyond what is comfortable. Patience is stretched. Personalities get in the way. Egos provide points of obstruction. It is never easy. We are learning to listen. We are learning to forgive. We are learning to go forward, believing what binds us together as a community is stronger than individual bickering points. And we are having a great time.

Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding

Independent judges have always frustrated governments that don't see why unelected arbiters of the law should stand in their way.

Das Ãœbel gedeiht nie besser, als wenn ein Ideal davorsteht

Yet the victory of fascism was made practically unavoidable by the liberals' obstruction of any reform involving planning, regulation, or control.

If spiritual practices serve the purpose of stopping the mind, they are strong allies. But if they deepen the belief that you are someone in particular who practices something in particular in order to get something that you do not believe is already here, then they are an obstruction.

I will not stand idly when anyone gets in the way of the national interest and tries to block the national vision. From where I sit, I can tell you, a president is always as strong as she wants to be.

The true measure of a leader is what it takes to stop him.

There are no figures in the Trump campaign who colluded with Russia - but there were at least five in the Obama administration who helped push the bogus narratives of collusion and obstruction, and they have plenty of questions to answer.

I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

I like to be directed, but when I'm flying and I'm on fire, I don't want someone coming and getting in my way just because they feel like they need to.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

La Salome continua de seguida: El temps ens curarà l'aflicció del cor. L'objectiu final és la nostra llibertat i la seguretat, i els que impedeixen que l'aconseguim són els homes. Però no tots els homes, diu la Mejal. L'Ona puntualitza: Potser no els homes per se, sinó més aviat una ideologia perniciosa que han deixat que s'apoderés dels cors i dels caps dels homes.

God -starts- things,' he [the Lord] said. 'Man stops them.

God starts things," he said. "Man stops them.

There were toes. Those toes wouldn't be happy piggies. But they didn't have any right to be in the way.

President Obama's postpartisan pitch fell flat, and the Tea Party movement pulled the GOP further to its ideological pole. Republicans greeted the new president with a unified strategy of opposing, obstructing, discrediting, and nullifying every one of his important initiatives.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

terms tend to become dead counters in a futile, spiritually obstructive semantic game, for they describe mystic experience that cannot be exposed to the common light of day without devaluation and dilution of meaning.

Oh, Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!

Thus, my friends, you learn much about the world, and through it about yourself, by what I say to you here. But you have not learned anything about your mysteries in this way; indeed, your way is darker than before, since my example will stand obstructively in your path. You may follow me, not on my way, but on yours.