Quotes About Resistance

But that is some way ahead and the rebellions will be quashed ruthlessly.)

Whenever we resist something—perhaps an unkind remark, a shocking event, or a depressing feeling—our very resistance indicates a belief in the power of that event to hurt us. Although it is really powerless, our mistaken belief in it induces despair. But by not resisting, we dissolve the false belief and consequently the false power for harm.

The freedom of expression and entrepreneurship that have characterized the Internet to date would be a thing of the past, and the Internet, which has until now resisted the forces of corporate clout, and has maintained open and equal access for individuals as well as for corporate entities, would become a failed dream

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

I believe fear of what we do not know may be the devil's best tool, meant to keep us back from those we long to approach.

David he'd become, but against what Goliath did he rage so fierce?

What I learnt from that was that the exhaustion that pain brings arises because we resist it. The thing is to learn to go with the pain, to ride it.

You'll flatten your debt and develop a natural resistance to spending more than you have for things you don't want to impress people you don't like (to paraphrase Robert Quillen).

The thing is," Tom said, "I won't come." "Just to spoil my fun? Or you think you're still too weak?

But darling Sasha, why resort to terrorism, murder? How awful.' He replied, 'What can one do, Mother, when there are no other means available?

Méfie-toi, Artémitch, du confort bureaucratique, C'est de la vase; on s'y noie.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

The truest protest is beauty.

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.

Big Oil, Wall Street and big business as a whole - they stand in the way of the kinds of change needed. They are fiercely against the radical reforms Bernie Sanders is popularizing.

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.