Resistance Quotes - Page 22

• I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.

  Alexandra Paul

  Believe, Atheism, Violence

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• I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

  Dennis Quaid

  Things Change, Used, Feels

  "Topher Grace & Dennis Quaid". Interview, people.com. January 12, 2005.

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• Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

  Paul Rand

  Lying, Mind, Balance

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• I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

  Salman Rushdie

  Games, Thrones, Initials

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• You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

  John Ruskin

  Peace, Winning, Evil

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Two Paths”, p.160, John Ruskin

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• We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Mean, Hands, Target

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• Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Military, Land, Iraq

  "Moqtada al-Sadr orders halt to attacks on US troops stationed in Iraq". www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, Political, Atmosphere

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

  Steven Seagal

  Integrity, People, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the other supplies facts, and the British are traditionally empiricists so they/we have a resistance to theory and to theoreticians playing too prominent a role in public life.

  Will Self

  Feelings, Facts, Roles

  "Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say" by Alain de Botton, AC Grayling, Susie Orbach, Paul Gilroy, Will Self, Mary Beard, Brian Cox, Lionel Shriver, James Lovelock and Lisa Jardine, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2011.

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• Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

  Al Sharpton

  Kings, Commitment, Passive Resistance

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• Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Path, Moral

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• All, or nearly all, the advantage there is in fixing any constitutional limits to the power of a government, is simply to give notice to the government of the point at which it will meet with resistance.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Giving, Limits

  Lysander Spooner (1852). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.19

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  I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  I Love You, Daughter, Fun

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• You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Ego, Arrogance

  Interview with Regina R. Robertson, www.essence.com. September 14, 2012.

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• I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Country, Fashion, Stupid

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• Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Leader, Victory, Wish

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• There are many resistance movements in the world, like the IRA for instance. But it is only Islamic resistance movements that are put on the terrorist list. This is what I am saying.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Islamic, Ira, Movement

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• In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Past, Differences, Lebanon

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• Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Strong, Crowded Places, Palestinian

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• When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

  Regina Brett

  Chocolate, God Never Blinks, Valuable Life Lessons

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• Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was so soft there was no resistance. Hard things sank into her, they went right through her, and if she made a real effort, out the other side. Then she didn't have to see them or hear them, or even touch them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Real, Hair, Voice

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Robber Bride: Includes the short story 'I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth'”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rivers, Path

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• Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Wisdom, Hate

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• When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . . The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one's whole being, is that you alone control nothing. . . .

  Henry Miller

  Trying, Problem, Realizing

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