Top 100 The Resistance Quotes
#1. The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
Henning Mankell
#2. The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#3. Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."
"As you wish, then. There is no 'Resistance' in this room. Only the pilot Poe Dameron. And I.
Alan Dean Foster
#4. But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
Wayne White
#5. Parisians were not easy to engage in conversation. Perhaps that was why the Resistance had been so successful.
Sara Sheridan
#6. Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.
Henry Cloud
#7. The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#8. If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at risk, the resistance would like to stay there forever.
Seth Godin
#9. If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
Billy Corgan
#10. 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
#11. While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.
Ani DiFranco
#12. The resistance does not mean that everyone can carry a weapon. The weapon is only for the people of the weapons.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#13. I started my political life in the Resistance. It was there that I had my first responsibility.
Francois Mitterrand
#14. The truth about the nature and the power of the elite is not some secret which men of affairs know but will not tell. ... No matter how great their actual power, they tend to be less acutely aware of it than of the resistance of others to its use.
C. Wright Mills
#15. The sun is setting on the New Republic," Leia said. "It's time for the Resistance to rise.
Claudia Gray
#16. Life can be simple, it ain't easy. So don't take the easy option. Challenge the resistance, challenge yourself, become great
Tony Curl
#17. The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.
Hassan Nasrallah
#18. I spit out to my heart and my mind. when you collect them together, they can not show the resistance of a average dick.
Arzum Uzun
#19. Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.
Robert Conklin
#20. If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary.
Erich Von Manstein
#21. You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.
Frederick Lenz
#22. Welcome to the resistance, Lena,' he whispers to me. 'I'll try to make this quick.
Lauren Oliver
#23. Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.
Theodor Adorno
#24. Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.
Ahmed Yassin
#25. What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
Hassan Nasrallah
#26. Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah Berlin
#27. A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense ...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#28. The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.
Bertrand Russell
#29. It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
T.D. Jakes
#30. Meditation is a silent way of looking at resistance. You're not running away from it
you're sitting with the resistance ... basically you're trying to follow the resistance. And I think that's very interesting.
Rodney Yee
#31. Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.
Demi Lovato
#32. Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.
Clare Mulley
#33. The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.
N. T. Wright
#34. I read many riveting escape-and-evade accounts of airmen and of the Resistance networks organized to hide them and then send them on grueling treks across the Pyrenees to safety. But it was the people I met in France and Belgium who made the period come alive for me. They had lived it.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#35. The resistance to the mimetic contagion prevents the myth from taking shape. The conclusion in the light of the Gospels is inescapable: myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.
Rene Girard
#36. I will tell you the same thing I tell every slave. The resistance has tried to penetrate this school countless times. I have discovered it every time. if you are working with the resistance, if you contact them, if you think of contacting them, I will know and i will destroy you.
Sabaa Tahir
#37. I do close to 30 minutes in cardio at a very high rate. I raise the level of intensity. I do a level 18 on the elliptical at four miles an hour for 20 minutes. That's 360 calories. I want to see someone else try that. The resistance factor at 18 is brutal. No one goes to 20.
Ric Flair
#38. The resistance will be exclusively conducted by only one group. This new group will be defined soon by me.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#39. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
William Hazlitt
#40. We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.
Shirin Ebadi
#41. We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
Nate Parker
#42. Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that?
Kristin Hannah
#43. If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.
Niall Ferguson
#45. The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.
Ram Dass
#46. Violence is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation. Violence is a symptom; the occupation is the disease - a mortal disease for everybody concerned, the occupied and the occupiers.
Uri Avnery
#47. I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time.
Tom Morello
#48. In the fog of history and myth, the American role in championing and underwriting European integration is frequently forgotten, along with the resistance of the Europeans.
George Friedman
#49. Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
Frank Herbert
#50. Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#51. The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
Henri Nouwen
#52. The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.
Seth Godin
#53. Syria has a strategic position in the region, I don't deny her role, her alliance with the resistance or our friendship with her although that many Lebanese pretended to have forgotten that there is an enemy called Israel which is still targeting us and constituting a danger to the Lebanese people.
Hassan Nasrallah
#54. Advance towards socialism cannot but cause the exploiting elements to resist the advance, and the resistance of the exploiters cannot but lead to the inevitable sharpening of the class struggle.
Joseph Stalin
#55. If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
Isaac Newton
#56. The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't understand what the real problems are.
Aldrich Ames
#57. Never did anyone ever stay longer than ten years because the resistance grows fiercer as your presence grows longer [in Afghanistan]. I don't think we are going to be any exception. What made us exempt from history?
Gwynne Dyer
#58. Are you with the Resistance?" "No. I am simply trying to survive, and to help those I can." Fleur
Stephen P. Kiernan
#59. Anything worthwhile is opposed. Steven Pressfield (War of Art) calls this the Resistance.
Michael Hyatt
#61. Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.
H.L. Mencken
#62. The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. He will soon be claiming that the Resistance has liberated the world.
Coco Chanel
#64. Be not discouraged. There is a future for you ... The resistance encountered now predicates hope ...
Frederick Douglass
#65. Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.
Brother Lawrence
#66. I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.
Carice Van Houten
#67. I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
Pol Pot
#68. In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#69. I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In St. George, members of the Latino community proposed having a "Dixie Fiesta." The resistance to that surprised me.
Richard Benjamin
#70. There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.
Sigmund Freud
#71. Instead of the Government spending $400,000 on immunisation, we may get far better health outcomes if we spend $100,000 in some other way, on nutrition for example ... When you have an expenditure on getting your community healthier, then the resistance to many childhood diseases is stronger.
Michael Moore
#72. I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.
Katrina Bowden
#73. If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.
Vijay Kumar
#74. But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.
Ron Paul
#75. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?
Vatsala Shukla
#76. That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.
Dean F. Wilson
#77. I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
Paul Robeson
#78. [T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.
Rebecca Solnit
#79. It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
Lauren Oliver
#80. The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#81. So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will inhibit creativity.
Peter Weir
#82. Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#83. 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
#84. The resistance to [black-and-white] is huge, in the way that you have to sell the film. It's difficult to distribute around the world.
John Boorman
#85. Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.
Conrad Wolfram
#86. Part of the resistance of Westerners to becoming patrons is that they react negatively to the idea of participating in a society that is basically built on institutionalized inequality.121
David E. Maranz
#87. I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
Margaret Atwood
#88. Each of us, right here, right now - we are the resistance.
Jaye L. Knight
#89. Don't listen to the cynics. They're cynics for a reason. For them, the resistance won a long time ago. When the resistance tells you not to listen to something, read something, or attend something, go. Do it. It's not an accident that successful people read more books. Symptoms
Seth Godin
#90. Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good ... The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
Donald Miller
#91. The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
F.H. Bradley
#93. We may now understand how spiritual life originates. It enters the heart by faith. Christ reigns in the heart with His Holy Spirit, who sees, hears, speaks, works, suffers, and does all things in and through us over the protest and the resistance of the flesh.
Martin Luther
#94. An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.
Radhanath Swami
#95. When people ask us how long does it take for something to manifest, we say, It takes as long as it takes you to release the RESISTANCE. Could be 30 years, could be 40 years, could be 50 years, could be a week. Could be tomorrow afternoon.
Esther Hicks
#96. The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#97. We continue to resist the occupier militarily, culturally and by all means of the resistance.
Muqtada Al Sadr
#98. 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
#99. My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.
Charles Atlas
#100. It is widely believed that the snails did not even know they overthrew the shiners, so nonexistent was the resistance, said Howard.
Suzanne Collins
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