Resistance Quotes - Page 4

• It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

  Lysander Spooner

  Lying, Government Lies, Execution

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.11, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

  Jill Briscoe

  Inspirational, Prayer, Helping Others

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• Willpower is what separates us from the animals. It's the capacity to restrain our impulses, resist temptation - do what's right and good for us in the long run, not what we want to do right now. It's central, in fact, to civilisation.

  Roy Baumeister

  Running, Animal, Discipline

  "Why willpower matters – and how to get it" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

  William James

  Reading, Book, Trying

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• 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

  Stress, Yoga, Boxing

  "Face Time | Katrina Bowden". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. August 9, 2011.

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• Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.

  William A. Dembski

  Antibiotics, Bacteria, Gains

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• What everyone underestimated was the acute unpopularity of the Taliban, even in the Pashtun areas. People like myself were saying the Taliban would be driven out very swiftly from the north of Afghanistan, but given that their main support base was in the Pashtun belt, there would be greater resistance there. That didn't happen. The Taliban had become deeply unpopular and were actually discarded by the Pashtun population almost as quickly as they were in the north. I don't see the Taliban coming back in any way.

  Ahmed Rashid

  People, Support, Population

  Source: progressive.org

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• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  Ida B. Wells

  Men, Lynching, Bravery

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• [People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Differences, People, Evil

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

  Gloria Steinem

  Firsts, Social, Social Change

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• For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.

  Lierre Keith

  Loyalty, Jobs, Support

  Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.212, Seven Stories Press

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• Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Research, Want

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.22, Black Irish Books

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• Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.

  John Ehrlichman

  Health, White, America

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• No matter how Palestinians resist, they are shot, beaten, arrested, tortured, bombed, segregated, and collectively punished. The problem isn't the mode of Palestinian resistance, it is the existence of Palestinians on their land that Israel takes issue with.

  Remi Kanazi

  Israel, Land, Issues

  FaceBook post by Remi Kanazi from Jan 24, 2014

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• Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Success, Encouraging, God

  Twitter post from May 29, 2012

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• The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Political

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis”, p.112

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• Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

  Steven Pressfield

  Goal, Aim, Wounds

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.15, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Individuality, Individualism

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.43, Routledge

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• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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• The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.

  William Stringfellow

  Biblical, Darkness, Risk

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• Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work.

  Steven Pressfield

  Aim

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• [I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fighting, Coward, Doe

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• Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Rights, Government, People

  "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Principles, Refinement

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

  Audrey Tautou

  Beauty, Beautiful, I Hate You

  "Fictional character: Irène". "Priceless", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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