Resistance Quotes - Page 6

• I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Grace, Soul, Doe

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• Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

  Mark Driscoll

  Running, Jesus, Real

  Mark Driscoll, Grace Driscoll (2013). “Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Religious, Disappointment, Drama

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• EVERYTHING is love, so the only thing that's not love is our resistance to love, is us trying to be separate from the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Love Is, Trying, World

  Interview with Lexi Shapiro, theywillrockyou.com. April 23, 2008.

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• The path of least resistance will never make you proud.

  Tony Robbins

  Proud, Path, Path Of Least Resistance

  Twitter post from May 26, 2016

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• Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Hard Work, Minus, Equal

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• If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

  Donald Miller

  Important, Encounters, Easy

  Twitter post from Jul 06, 2015

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

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• While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

  Ani DiFranco

  Change, Sky, Waiting

  Song: Millennium Theater, Album: Reprieve, 2006

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• In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Integrity, Long, Favors

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• In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

  Fredric Jameson

  Country, War, Agreement

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• That was very much ahead of its time back in the 1880s and, not surprisingly, it was met with some resistance. [I]f you fast forward to today and the fact that we're the single largest source of employment for women (broadly speaking, as the reps are independent contractors), we've been an important creator of entrepreneurship for women.

  Andrea Jung

  Women, Independent, Important

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• Revolutionary war is an antitoxin that not only eliminates the enemy's poison but also purges us of our own filth. Every just, revolutionary war is endowed with tremendous power and can transform many things or clear the way for their transformation. The Sino-Japanese war will transform both China and Japan; provided China perseveres in the War of Resistance and in the united front, the old Japan will surely be transformed into a new Japan and the old China into a new China, and people and everything else in both China and Japan will be transformed during and after the war.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, Japan

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• The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Garden, Blessing

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.115, VM eBooks

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• The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

  Arundhati Roy

  Jobs, Real, Salary

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.335, Haymarket Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Years, Politics

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• To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance ... and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring

  Natan Sharansky

  Struggle, Thinking, Kgb

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• We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

  Arundhati Roy

  Joining Hands, Needs, World

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”, p.215, Penguin Books India

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• The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Order, Creative, Use

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• Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.

  Chris Hedges

  Thinking, Going Away, Fundamentals

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• What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.

  Menachem Begin

  Fighting, Government, Israel

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• Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.

  Tim Bishop

  Race, Tyrants, Leader

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• Look in your own heart. Unless I'm crazy, right now a still small voice is piping up, telling you as it has ten thousand times, the calling that is yours and yours alone. You know it. No one has to tell you. And unless I'm crazy, you're no closer to taking action on it than you were yesterday or will be tomorrow. You think Resistance isn't real? Resistance will bury you.

  Steven Pressfield

  Motivational, Crazy, Real

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.23, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Protest, Agree, Disagree

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