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Quotes About Resistance

Take some small action. Resistance hates action.
~ Matthew Kelly
Resistance loves keeping us busy with anything but the one thing that will most help us grow.
~ Matthew Kelly
Our lives change when our habits change. Resistance hates good, strong, positive habits in your life.
~ Matthew Kelly
The single cause to which Everett was perhaps most committed throughout his congressional term was resisting Indian Removal
~ Unknown
Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.
~ Matthew Stover
Medicine Lodge Root is the remedy for people who are fighting against natural and divine order, or who are losing the battle to remain a separate, conscious individual. The personality, ego, or spiritual will is weak; they are battered down by outside influences and too easily dominated. They need to make a ninety degree turn or they will die—spiritually or physically.
~ Unknown
You know I don't like being told what to do. Then do without being told.
~ Unknown
The awareness at each moment of what is intolerable in the world (tortures, oppression, unhappiness, hunger, the camps) is not tolerable: it bends, sinks, and he who exposes himself to it sinks with it. The awareness is not awareness in general. All knowledge of what everywhere is intolerable will at once lead knowledge astray. We live thus between straying and a half-sleep. To know this is already enough to stray.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Es imposible impedir la guerra cuando los ejércitos comenzaron a marchar.
~ Maurice Druon
Every progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
It is not the arrival of death, but the departure of life that is appalling. It is not death, but life that we must act upon. It is not death that attacks life; it is life that wrongfully resists death.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Those who resisted were neither madmen nor wise men; they were heroes—men in whom passion and reason were identical, who in the obscurity of desire did what history expected and what was later to appear as the truth of the moment. We cannot remove the element of reason in their choice any more than the element of audacity and risk of failure.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Nature resists. It cannot be entirely established in front of us. The body is a nature at work within us.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
What is required by the facts which Freud describes under the name of repression, complex, regression or resistance is only the possibility of a fragmented life of consciousness which does not possess a unique significance at all times.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
~ Maurice Sendak
La consigna para todo peronista, esté aislado o dentro de una organización, es contestar a una acción violenta con otra más violenta. Y cuando uno de los nuestros caiga, caerán cinco de los de ellos. […] Que
~ Unknown
Por eso, yo contesto a esta presencia popular con las mismas palabras del 45: a la violencia le hemos de contestar con una violencia mayor. Con nuestra
~ Unknown
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn't mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.
~ Max Barry
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
~ Max Beerbohm
To be an anti-Trump Republican in this climate requires moral courage that few politicians or media personalities display.
~ Max Boot
the parents are the first problem a child comes up against, the first resistance he has to assert himself against; his arguments with them are the model for all his later fights in life.
~ Unknown
A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
~ Max Lerner