Quotes About Resistance

Absolute monarchy may indeed be the most efficient system the world has ever known, but we had better wait for the absolute control of the Perfect One, in the meantime resisting any pretenders to the throne.

I wish I could control myself! When I get in a tight place, it seems all I can think of is cutting their heads off!

T]hose who are always trying to control everything and eliminate all uncertainties are miserable. For they are fighting against nature. On the other hand, those who come to accept uncertainties as inevitable live lives of peace.

From symbiosis to parasitism is a short step. The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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

I have found that people who can successfully resist temptation invariably lead depressingly stunted lives.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Let man but accumulate his materials of destruction and the devil within him will soon be unable to resist putting them to their fated use.

This experience punctured the desired hole in her rationalism and broke the ice of her intellectual resistance.

Whoever protects himself against what is new and strange and thereby regresses to the past, falls into the same neurotic condition as the man who identifies himself with the new and runs away from the past.

Always a specifically qualified object is either desired or met with resistance, and this reaction always follows the pattern established in earliest childhood through the relation to father and mother. What comes from the subject is essentially a blind striving after pleasure; but this striving always acquires its quality from specific objects.

The individual who is not anchored in God can offer no resistance on his own resources to the physical and moral blandishments of the world.

I was unable to understand how a perfectly rational argument could meet with such emotional resistance.

retreat from life leads to regression, and regression heightens resistance to life.

Notwithstanding our rationalistic attempts to argue it out of existence, psychic reality is and remains a genuine source of anxiety whose danger increases the more it is denied. The biological instincts then meet not only with outer obstacles but with an internal resistance. The same psychic system which, on one side, is based on the concupiscence of the instincts, rests on the other side on an opposing will which is at least as strong as the biological urge.

The patient married during the course of her treatment with me, but not without a violent resistance to this step. The cause of her neurotic resistance came to light only after many months, and there is not a hint of it anywhere in these dreams. They are without exception anticipations of the difficulties she is to have with the analysts to whom she has come for treatment.

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It's not worth it trying to push back because they hold all the cards. They've got paid lawyers and regulators with no personal financial stake in this building like we do. They can sit at their desks and tell us what we can and can't do, and they can drag this out for years or until we're both bankrupt.

She demands more than she ever gives and rarely shows any gratitude. I hope you're prepared. The only thing she hates more than being told what to do is being told what she should not do.

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

Meu caminho, pensei confuso, meu caminho não cabe nos trilhos de um bonde.

The key here isn't to avoid or even to reduce the total amount of time you spend engaging in distracting behavior, but is instead to give yourself plenty of opportunities throughout your evening to resist switching to these distractions at the slightest hint of boredom.

The Principle of Least Resistance, protected from scrutiny by the metric black hole, supports work cultures that save us from the short-term discomfort of concentration and planning, at the expense of long-term satisfaction and the production of real value.