Resistance Quotes - Page 9

• Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

  Martin Heidegger

  Spiritual, Commitment, Dedication

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• I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The task of the proletariat is to create a still more powerful fatherland with a far greater power of resistance, the Republican United States of Europe, as the foundation of the United States of the World.

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Europe, United States

  Ley D. Trotsky, Leon Trotsky (1973). “The Bolsheviki and world peace”, Hyperion Pr

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• Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.

  John Ortberg

  Church, Pessimism, Cynicism

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• We are still resisters, and we are still resisting the occupier militarily and culturally and by all the means of resistance. Repeat after me: No, no for the occupier.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Mean

  "Anti-U.S. Cleric Al-Sadr Delivers Fiery First Speech Since Return From Exile" by Rebecca Santana, Associated Press, www.tulsaworld.com. January 09, 2011.

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• I'm very patient and always willing to try things but I have some resistance as well because I have my own vision. I have resistance sometimes because I see a director who's freaking out and wants to have control and they sometimes anticipate about what I'm going to be doing or not.

  Juliette Binoche

  Vision, Trying, Directors

  "Juliette Binoche Talks ‘Elles,’ Masturbation & her Upcoming Portrayal of Camille Claudel". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. April 23, 2012.

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• 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

  Community, Example, Dixie

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Men, Arms

  "Imperial Denial". Interview with Nonna Gorilovskaya, www.motherjones.com. May 21, 2004.

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• Whether you call it terrorism or resistance, and whether you like Hamas or not, it is a political entity that no one can ignore.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Political, Terrorism, Entity

  "'Peace without Syria Is Unthinkable'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz, www.spiegel.de. January 19, 2009.

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• It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Motivational, Change, Determination

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• Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Race, Suffering

  "Rainn Wilson: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 24, 2011.

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• In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

  Peter Zumthor

  Waste, Architecture, Language

  Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”

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• Do we have to stare death in the face to make us stand up and confront Resistance?

  Steven Pressfield

  Faces, Staring

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.22, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness. Conventionally, being fearless means that you are not afraid or that, if someone hits you, you will hit him back. But we aren't talking about that street-fighter level of fearlessness. Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Real, Heart, Mean

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• History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

  Bashar al-Assad

  People, Support, Groups

  ""America Must Listen"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. September 24, 2006.

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• If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Loss, Accountability, Choices

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• Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance to one or more pesticides has been reported in at least 225 species of insects and other arthropods. The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Men, Ddt, Population

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• But although the attractive virtue of the earth extends upwards, as has been said, so very far, yet if any stone should be at a distance great enough to become sensible compared with the earth's diameter, it is true that on the motion of the earth such a stone would not follow altogether; its own force of resistance would be combined with the attractive force of the earth, and thus it would extricate itself in some degree from the motion of the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Distance, Would Be, Earth

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (p. 36), 1920.

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• ...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, Ideas, Generosity

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• To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

  Chinua Achebe

  Real, Mean, Names

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK

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• Our resistance will be long and painful, but whatever the sacrifices, however long the struggle, we shall fight to the end, until Vietnam is fully independent and reunified.

  Ho Chi Minh

  War, Struggle, Independent

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• Human character is never found "to enter into its glory," except through the ordeal of affliction. Its force cannot come forth without the offer of resistance, nor can the grandeur of its free will declare itself, except in the battle of fierce temptation.

  James Martineau

  Character, Temptation, Battle

  James Martineau (1879). “Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons”

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• Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

  Herman Melville

  Passive Resistance, Earnest, Persons

  1853 'Bartleby the Scrivener', in Putnam'sMonthly Magazine, Nov-Dec.

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• [American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.

  Paul Tillich

  Opposites, Political, Degrees

  "The Courage to Be" by Paul Tillich, (p. 112), 1952.

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• For the lesson of such stories [of resistance to Nazi atrocities] is simple and within everybody's grasp. Politically speaking, it is that under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Simple, People

  "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter XIV, 1963.

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