Resistance Quotes - Page 15

• Always work to cause your horse to follow the path of least resistance. Then place an opening for him to pass through so that the path of least resistance becomes the direction you want him to go in.

  Monty Roberts

  Horse, Want, Path

  Monty Roberts (2002). “Horse Sense for People: The Man Who Listens to Horses Talks to People”, p.13, Penguin

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• The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."

  Daniel K Judd

  Appreciation, Pain, Writing

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• It can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs and they are defending all the people of the world against American hegemony....It's not the Muslims who are sick. It's Bush and Blair and Berlusconi who are sick. It's not the Muslims who need to be cured. It's the imperialist countries that need to be cured.

  George Galloway

  Country, Iraq, People

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• The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights and liberties can be preserved only by resistance to that which would destroy them. And to defend certain basic God-given rights and liberties is not immoral but righteous.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  War, Thinking, Rights

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• The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Coercion, States

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.45, VM eBooks

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• The necessity for struggle is one of the clever devices through which nature forces individuals to expand, develop, progress, and become strong through resistance. . .We are forced to recognize that this great universal necessity for struggle must have a definite and useful purpose. That purpose is to force the individual to sharpen his wits, arouse his enthusiasm, build up his spirit of faith, gain definiteness of purpose, develop his power of will, and inspire his faculty of imagination to give him new uses for old ideas and concepts. . .

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Sin, Luther, Salvation

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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• Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look for ever more-clever ways to acquire it without inciting resistance. One of those ways is the spreading of an elaborate ideology of statism, which teaches that the people are the state and that therefore they are only paying themselves when they pay taxes.

  Sheldon Richman

  Clever, People, Wish

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• Technique itself springs from play, because we can acquire technique only by the practice of practice, by persistently experimenting and playing with our tools and testing their limits and resistances.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Spring, Practice, Play

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.42, Penguin

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• The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and long lost, forgotten powers are revivified, to be made available for the transfiguration of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Long, Overcoming

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.22, New World Library

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• There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Adoption, Peaceful

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• I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Beautiful, Thinking, Views

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• If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic.

  Karl Marx

  War, Blood, Europe

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.581, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over

  Seth Godin

  Careers, Errors, Effort

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.27, Penguin

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• The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Endurance, Bears

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

  Tim Ferriss

  Believe, Impact, Focus

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• To fly, we must have resistance.

  Maya Lin

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• At the end, what I like is that it's the girl's decision to go back in the room. She needs a hug, she wants a hug, she asks for a hug and he gives it to her. For me, it's like an act of resistance to go there and to transgress the taboo and to do what started the whole thing in the beginning. It was supposedly a hug that started this whole drama between the character of Simon and the teacher.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Girl, Teacher, Drama

  Source: collider.com

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• The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Argument, Should

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.82, The New Press

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• We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in.

  Meryl Streep

  Girl, Thinking, Challenges

  "Meryl Streep, Michelle Obama Discuss Gender Equality: 'We're Still Not There Yet'" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 19, 2015.

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• Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

  Albert Brooks

  Art, Cutting, Together

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

  Tim Allen

  Hands, Nuts, Trying

  "Tim Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 2011.

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• I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

  Christie Brinkley

  Exercise, Thinking, One Day

  "Celebrity Workout Exclusive: How Christie Brinkley Stays So Gorgeous". Shape Magazine Interview, www.shape.com.

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• Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.

  Sam Smith

  Strong, Men, Law

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• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fighting, Artist, Victory

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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