People tend to resist a change into something new and different.But after it’s succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

If you were meant to cure cancer or crack cold fusion and you don’t do it, you not only hurt yourself, even destroy yourself. You hurt your children, you hurt me, you hurt the planet....

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed...

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

resistance often lacks an overt political project and frequently reflects social practices that are informal, disorganised, apolitical, and atheoretical in nature. In some instances it can reduce itself to an unreflective and defeatist refusal to...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but...

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will...

Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything...

Above all, let’s hope we never take ourselves too seriously.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels.””Its own grave-diggers,” he said.”But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They...

Pour la première fois depuis des siècles, le nom de chrétien devint pour un juif une garantie, le vrai chrétien: un frère, le prêtre: un protecteur naturel.

For this was the other thing that Elric knew: that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance.

For those of us who can’t be active on the front lines – and this will be most of us – our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance....

We’re wrong if we think we’re the only ones struggling with Resistance. Everyone who has a body experiences Resistance.

Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Life has a way of forcing us to grow in one way or another, constantly. We sometimes try to stem the growth by being unbending..yet, look what happens to the branches of a tree, if...

Challenge anything that could step into your plans with the intention of acting as a resistance towards your fulfillment.

But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don’t forget this. Be...

When there is a grand cause to be won, he said, sometimes, there are unavoidable casualties. None of us are happy about that, but it’s a painful reality. He paused and added, We’ve all accepted...

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are the odd term in relations of power; they are inscribed...

Resistance changes itself.

We heard of this woman who was out of control. We heard that she was led by her feelings. That her emotions were violent. That she was impetuous. That she violated tradition and overrode convention....

Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can’t see a way to move forward — believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness…

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Your mind is like a tunnel that has no end, and a baloon, that even too much air cannot burst.

Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you’re feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there’s tremendous love there too.

This effort [to establish racism, sexism and homophobia as morally heinous in law] also casts the law in particular and the state more generally as neutral arbiters of injury rather than as themselves invested with...

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours,...

Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work.

normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn...

Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.

I ruthlessly expend my time and my energies seeking many random things, none of which will bless me in the way that I suppose they will, for despite my frequently stubborn resistance to the thought,...

Our experience of the governments of the world, our knowledge of the weapons at their disposal, and our awareness of our own limitations justify pessimism. But some mysterious factor deep in the human psyche has...

Stormy Llewellyn, a woman of unconventional views, believes instead that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life. She says that our honesty, integrity, courage, and determined resistance to...

Suffering is when we resist the moment.

If you’re are paralyzed with fear it’s a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

The market has met some resistance at this level. Investors are taking profit after the rally and the entire commodity complex including metals is down. It might drop to $70 and then people may come...

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

The fulcrum of resistance is in your mind where you pit yourself against the weight of the external.

Humanism is the only – I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

As long as you’re scared you’re on the plantation.

Once we recognize our shadow’s existence we must resist the enticing step of going with its flow.