Quotes About Resistance

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

I grew up in the grunge era. I've always resisted the idea of being part of a machine, wanting just to be an artist in my own right. But at some point, I just realized shutting things out took more energy than just letting it in.

People tend to shy away from rotation with resistance because they think they're going to get hurt. Like, 'If I move in that motion with that weight, I'm going to pull my back.' But you're not.

I'm so sick of the water.

California Democrats - we fight on the front lines - we don't equivocate on the sidelines.

Flanked on both sides, organized forces on the Left and the Right have made every effort to topple Trump, but these efforts have only served to embolden him and broaden his support.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

Nothing that I've done has been conventional. I didn't go with a major label, I didn't sign up with the bigwig management that basically has everyone but doesn't have time for anyone. I didn't win 'Idol' - I was seventh. I don't do anything how everybody else does it.

The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

They think because they have put my husband on an island that he will be forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will become.

Silence is the residue of fear.

Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.

Punk is the voice that shouts the loudest from the silence of inertia.

For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too.

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.