Resistance Quotes - Page 29

• I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Art, Believe, Rupture

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• We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

  Marjorie Garber

  Real, Doe, Culture

  Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage

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• I think it's just that as a creative person, in all the different things that I've done or ways that I've found to express myself, I've consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It's always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man - and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Men, Thinking, Views

  "Madonna: The Director's Cut". Interview with Naomi Wolf, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 9, 2011.

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• The progressive movement against the war of occupation in Iraq is a reason for hope, as is resistance to free trade agreements in Latin America. Those are moments that we have to celebrate: that people still find the resolve and energy to resist

  Danny Glover

  Latin, War, Agreement

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• Trends toward increasing numbers of infection and increasing drug resistance show no sign of abating.

  Joshua Sharfstein

  Numbers, Drug, Trends

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• Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.

  Amira Hass

  Throwing Stones, Action, Metaphor

  "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.

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• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Lebanon, Divided

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• The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

  George Washington

  Army, Fate, Hands

  Address to the Continental Army before the Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776.

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• Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Flames, Radio, London

  "Appeal of 18 June". Speech broadcast on BBC Radio, 1940.

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• Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

  Erich Fromm

  Reality, Expectations, Needs

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.150, Open Road Media

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• Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.

  Livy

  Criminals, Better Late Than Never, Rashness

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• Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Beautiful, Very Beautiful

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

  Barnes Wallis

  Acceptance, Men, Rejection

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• I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.

  Martin A. Siegel

  Emotional, Community, Lectures

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• Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

  Meredith Belbin

  Ideas, Wells, Ifs

  R Meredith Belbin (2012). “Management Teams”, p.34, Routledge

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• New ideas are not only the enemies of old ones; they also appear often in an extremely unacceptable form.

  Carl Jung

  Ideas, Space, Enemy

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• The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Two, Race, Class

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• Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Judging, Lag, Ability

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• Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

  Herodotus

  Change, Men, Illness

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• Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
  which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease.
  Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life
  heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

  B. Alan Wallace

  Meditation Practice, Healthy, Vitality

  B. Alan Wallace (2010). “The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They will never outlaw all of your guns at once. But every 'reasonable' control they can impose without your resistance gives them one more bit of leverage to make gun ownership for you and your children and your grandchildren as difficult as possible.

  Dave Kopel

  Children, Gun, Giving

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• Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.

  Rupert Spira

  Wisdom, Spiritual, Heart

  Rupert Spira (2016). “Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness”, New Harbinger Publications

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• None of us offers resistance when he is seized, or avenges himself for your unjust violence, although our people are numerous and plentiful...it is not lawful for us to hate, and so we please God more when we render no requital for injury...we repay your hatred with kindness.

  Cyprian

  Kindness, Hate, People

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• Insistence on having a sexual orientation in sex is about defending the status quo, maintaining sex differences and the sexual hierarchy; whereas resistance to sexual orientation, regimentation is more about where we need to be going.

  John Stoltenberg

  Sex, Differences, Needs

  John Stoltenberg (2005). “Refusing to be a Man: Essays on Social Justice”, p.92, Routledge

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