Quotes with resistance

  • It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
  • The anti-Japanese resistance was as familiar a theme in North Korean cinema as cowboys and Indians was in early Hollywood.
  • Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
  • One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.
  • If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Sun Tzu Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Marianne Moore War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
    Marianne Moore
    American poet (1887 - 1972)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • André Gide Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Maya Angelou At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Billy Childish Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.
    Billy Childish
    English painter, author, poet and photographer (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Butler Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Breyten Breytenbach Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
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  • Bono But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear .
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Al Sharpton Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Frederick W. Faber Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
    Frederick W. Faber
    English hymn writer and theologian (1814 - 1863)
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  • Alfred Adler Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Agnes Smedley For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Kingsley Amis Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Billy Corgan If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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