Quotes About Resistance

We sit inert, like dead specimens of some museum, while lessons are pelted at us from on high, like hailstones on flowers.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

The attempt to suppress an idea has always and everywhere proved a failure.

Whatever may be true of the other modes of warfare, insatyagraha it has been held that the causes for failure are to be sought within.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.

Faith is the path of least resistance.

Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

I am at war with my own mind.

The minute you start swimming with the stream is the minute when you get lost in the crowd.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

If you resist with courage, being always faithful to your sense of justice, you will be free of every period of adversity.

It is not the depth of our feelings that hurts us the most, but the strength of our resistance. Sometimes we have to let go.

Im fighting to get you out of my head but I'm holding onto every word that you ever said.

Every time I start to ignore you and act as if I don't care, there you go again showing up and messing up my mind.

They say milk gives u strength. Drink three glasses and try moving a wall. You can't. Drink three shots of vodka and it moves all by itself.