Quotes About Resistance

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.

Stupid truth, always resisting simplicity

I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed.

Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

The time-honored role of the artist [is] to speak truth to power.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

Stark truth, is seldom met with open arms.

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing.

When a self-evident truth is presented, don't be surprised when self-centeredness fights back...

No one can bar the road to truth and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Dare to oppose yourself.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Punk in small towns in '88, '89 was just too dangerous to the normal way of doing things," Lunsford explains. "We found out how many walls there were in this free society that were blocking self-entertainment.

Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.