Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North – meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing.We can use this. We...

The lizard brain is hungry, scared, angry, and horny.The lizard brain only wants to eat and be safe.The lizard brain will fight (to the death) if it has to, but would rather run away. It...

Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they’d built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized...

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the dictatorship serious problems, wealth and power are concentrated in too few...

I didn’t really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a...

The key of life symbolizes the map of existence. Once you free yourself from all resistance, your path will become white for the remainder of the distance.

A leaf does not resist the breeze. A goose does not resist the urge to fly down south. Is this not happiness? Is this not freedom? To access this incredible state, we need only one...

You have to do some thinking and know who you are, and then you have to resist compromising your truth for the comfort of others.

Sometimes it’s appropriate to scream at them.

They were probably shot down with guns.

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from...

Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.

[From a May 1, 2004 article entitled “Still Up to Mischief” from The Guardian reporting on and quoting Altman]Still, it’s worth noting that by the age of 20 this whistle- blower had resisted two of...

Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It’s been hard to say why. What I’ve learned from women’s experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange...

This culture destroys landbases. That’s what it does. When you think of Iraq, is the first thing that comes to mind cedar forests so thick that sunlight never touched the ground? One of the first...

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good…The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public...

Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable.

Persistence wears down resistance.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it.

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...