Quotes About Resisting Power

#1. Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. The powerful have a hard time seeing their own power and its effects. We do not see when our exercise of power is cutting off life and possibility for others; we do not see the ways others are resisting or undermining our own power.

Andy Crouch

#3. Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

Rajneesh

#4. Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

Norman Vincent Peale

#5. Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation

Thomas Middleton

#6. Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.

Isaac Newton

#7. In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more,

Ilchi Lee

#8. I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.

John Calvin

#9. Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in ... at least for 10 minutes.

Krishna Das

#10. The Boy Who Lived' remains a symbol of everything for which we are fighting: the triumph of good, the power of innocence, the need to keep resisting.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open your curtain at night, then the Moon will visit you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

Thomas Huxley

#13. I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.

Fiona Gubelmann

#14. Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. The double-teaming paid off; there was no resisting the power of a Stark-Romanoff alliance for long.

Margaret Stohl

#16. The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

Woodrow Wilson

#17. I'm an Angus King independent.

Jesse Ventura

#18. This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away.

Arthur Golden

#19. The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.

Pope Francis