Quotes About Resistance

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'

So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

There will always be war, but we must always work to oppose it.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

When you begin to pursue your promised land, you get a lot of prohibitions and temptations

People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is guarded from the inside.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

Anorexia is a self-destructive thing, and you become stubborn, so when people are trying to tell you something, you get it into your head that they're against you, and you're not going to listen.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.

At first, I was stubborn about not wanting to become a city boy.

I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.

In life, even in our own personal life, we find our self at times fighting against the hand of God. And I believe that. In other words, we can be a rebellious and stubborn people, individually, nationally, or corporately.

When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.

The Gaza leadership is stuck in its rhetoric of revolution and resistance. But the people are fed up with their leadership.

I could never understand the herd mentality. I have always fought to do things my way and have stuck to that.

I studied revolutions at university, and I think each revolution must begin with a moment of 'no.' If enough people have that moment at the same time, it becomes a movement.