So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that...

To experience what isn’t, love what is.

The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the...

Schnell, schnell.” There are men and women of all ages, even children. Among them I see one of my former students, Jeanine Crémieux. She got married in 1941 and had a baby last spring. She...

Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.

Resistance is common to the unusual.

[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...

Even when someone hurts you, you choose how to struggle, resist, deny and receive.

The dreams you have that may meet mockeries from the lips of negative people will yield the success that will squeeze tears from their eyes later! Dare to resist every negative criticism and persist to...

The Germans don’t want us, or did you not get that when they started dragging people into the streets and killing them? We can’t be Jews and Germans, not any more. You have to get...

It’s about more than us, now, can’t you see? I love you, of course I do, but some things…some things just have to be done.

Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance

The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you – and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it.

Occupation, curfew, settlements, closed military zone, administrative detention, siege, preventive strike, terrorist infrastructure, transfer. Their WAR destroys language. Speaks genocide with the words of a quiet technician.Occupation means that you cannot trust the OPEN SKY,...

The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn’t just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture...

An emotion does not cause pain. Resistance or suppression of emotion causes pain.

Each of us, right here, right now—we are the resistance.

The Mayor spoke proudly. ‘Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir, but—I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not...

When we try to ‘push through’ resistance, it seems to get even harder to move forward. After all, if you were trying to save someone by keeping them from running out into a dangerous situation,...

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

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very...

It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary...

One of the outstanding sources of resistance to imperial power in the Muslim world came from Sufi groups. While Sufi brotherhoods are generally known for a more quietist and mystic approach to Islam, they traditionally...

What you hate, you re-create; and what you bless, you put to rest.

Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of...

I’ve already gone through all the reasons to ignore her. I’ve already tried to fight this for far too long. I’m not winning any awards for resistance. I never did. I threw in the towel...

virtue.

Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a gun is put in a person’s face that anything changes

Resistance makes a man think new thoughts he never considered before. It makes a man ask questions he never asked before. It makes a man seek answers he never sought before. It makes a man...

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

The voices of actual communities are alive in a way no theory could every be even if, for now, it takes the form of tiny acts of resistance. Who doesn’t cheat on taxes, avoid cops,...

Caleb tossed him an explosive and Japhet lunged to catch it before it hit the ground. He glared but Caleb didn’t notice. Instead, he started to whistle I didn’t raise my boy to be a...

When a head and a wall collide, it’s never the wall that breaks.

Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of...

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

Protest is when I say I don’t like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance...

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

No successes we might have are guaranteed to last as long as industrial civilization stands. Conversely, most of our losses are effectively permanent. Extinct species cannot be resurrected. Overdrawn aquifers or clear-cut forests will not...

You got to insist on your success, resist every obstacle and persist in times of difficulty and you will get there.

Now don’t you give me any of that talk about becoming overly protective and fussy in my old age. I have every right to show a little concern now and then.

I know,’ said Winter, ‘but they don’t know.’ And he went on with a thought he had been having. ‘A time-minded people,’ he said, ‘and the time is nearly up. They think that just because...

Questioning authority doesn’t make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who...

I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound...

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your...

Resistance is the subtlest form of attachment.

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.

Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within.