Resistance Quotes

• True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

  Bell Hooks

  Pain, People, Confronting

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.229, Routledge

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• When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Might, Needs, Slavery

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• The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Degrees, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.33, New World Library

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• Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

  Winston Churchill

  Victory, Politics, Path

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• The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Liberty, Political Freedom, Freedom And Liberty

  Speech to New York Press Club in New York, 9 Sept. 1912, in Papers of Woodrow Wilson (1978) vol. 25, p. 124

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• Without resistance you can do nothing

  Jean Cocteau

  Can Do

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• Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.

  Adyashanti

  Sad, Confused, Anger

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• Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, Real, Justice

  "Peace and the new corporate liberation theology". Arundhati Roy's speech at the Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, sydney.edu.au. November 4, 2004.

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• The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so that those who might be affected by any changes see them as useful and beneficial for them. This isn't as hard as it sounds. You just have to be vigilant in paying attention to how you're influencing the lives of people who matter.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Moving, Keys, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Resistance is the first step to change.

  Louise Hay

  Change, Firsts, Steps

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.48, Hay House, Inc

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  Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Jul 13, 2011

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• Resist much, obey little.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• To the wrongs that need resistance,
  To the right that needs assistance,
  To the future in the distance,
  Give yourselves.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Honesty, Distance, Integrity

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• Resistance to tyranny is service to God.

  James Madison

  Liberty, Libertarian, Service To God

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• When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

  Jon Gordon

  Stay Positive, Lessons

  Jon Gordon (2011). “The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist.

  Amy Carmichael

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  Amy Carmichael (1955). “Edges of His Ways: Daily Devotional Notes”, p.30, CLC Publications

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

  Assata Shakur

  Mean, Exception To The Rule, Oppression

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• One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Army, Ideas

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

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• That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Overcoming, Substance

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• The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Fear, Tyrants

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• Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Order, Ego, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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