Quotes About Passive Resistance

#1. Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

Kenneth Kaunda

#2. Passive resistance is better than active acts of stupidity.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#3. Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Herman Melville

#4. Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Dalai Lama

#5. Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. It was the Sermon on the Mount, rather than a doctrine of passive resistance, that initially inspired the Negroes of Montgomery to dignified social action. It was Jesus of Nazareth that stirred the Negroes to protest with the creative weapon of love. As

Martin Luther King Jr.

#7. I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#8. Everything I know about passive resistance I learned from Micheline. She always appeared to be doing exactly as she was told, but everything she did took twice as long as it should have.

Elizabeth Wein

#9. The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Al Sharpton

#11. Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

Rick Cusick

#13. His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand - passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

John Lydon

#15. It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

James Weldon Johnson

#16. We can love anyone at a safe distance, but loving people in the thick of their mess takes the supernatural love of Jesus working in us.

Alisa Hope Wagner

#17. Her stillness defeated his storm.

Chris Gardner

#18. Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished.

Michael Cadnum

#19. Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

Alan Cohen

#20. We manage what we monitor.

Gretchen Rubin

#21. Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...

Romain Gary

#22. Again
nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth.

Marianne Williamson

#23. I decided to run for governor because I got mad ... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Jesse Ventura

#24. No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli

#25. What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?

Brandon Sanderson

#26. Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

Ray Comfort

#27. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.

Elie Wiesel