Quotes About Resistance

I will please shut the hell up the day you please drop the hell dead

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Ideas of Self in conflict cannot be slain, by resistance they are a reality- no Death or cunning has overcome them but is there reinforcement of energy. The dead are born again and again lie in the womb of conscience. By allowing maturity is to predicate decay when by non-resistance is retrogression to early simplicity and the passage to the original and unity without idea. From that idea is the formula of non-resistance germinating "Does not matter- please yourself.

Enlightened ideas cannot be executed with rubber bullets.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.

Living in the Islamic Republic is like having sex with someone you loathe.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

She didn't need anyone to tell her he was all wrong for her and yet…

That's why you should always start with this question: What is making this behavior hard to do?

With regard to asana practice, this means that initially we need to exert ourselves more as resistance is greater. Of the two aspects of asana, exertion of our body and penetration of our mind, the latter is eventually more important. Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

The mere presentation of an idea, unless we are careful about it, or unless there is within some unusual resistance, makes us believe it; and this is why the belief of others adds to our belief so quickly, for no ideas seem so very clear as those inculcated on us from every side.

The terrible difficulty of early life—the use of pastors and masters—really is, that they compel boys to a distinct mastery of that which they do not wish to learn.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

I teach people how to breathe; I teach them how to use dynamic resistance, which is what gets your heart rate jacked up.

It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.

You will definitely encounter lots of resistance on the road to super success, but don't let others stop you from reaching your goals.

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.

I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.

Yes, online privacy is a real problem that needs to be addressed. But even the best privacy laws are only as effective as our Paleolithic emotions are resistant to the seductions of technology.