Quotes About Resistance

The act of resisting something is the act of granting it life... the more you resist, the more you make it real - whatever it is you are resisting.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon.

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.

To say that, "I will not agree (will not accept)" is great egoism!

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

Trying to eliminate worldly temptations only makes our spiritual growth limited.

What people resist the most about spiritual healing is changing their minds.

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn't a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it.

Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We call that laziness inertia, but that doesn't mean we understand it. For a thousand years we've labelled it, quantified it, caged it in equations, but we've still only scratched the surface of what it really is.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

For rebelling against every form of authority fate has punished me by making me an authority.

Askerlik hizmeti yapmasi gerekenlerin yalnizca yuzde ikisi bile kendilerini savas direniscisi ilan etse ve savasmayacagiz. Uluslararasi ihtilaflari cozmek icin baska yontemlere ihtiyacimiz var, dese hukumetlerin eli kolu baglanir; bu kadar buyuk kitleleri hapse atamazlar.

Every day, somewhere in the world, someone attempts (sometimes successfully) to stifle a book... And again and again, empires fall and literature continues.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Where there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended--there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense.