Reading (…) is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return...

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

Anything that draws attention to ourselves through pain-free or artificial means is a manifestation of Resistance.

The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement...

…we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn’t poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

When Hitler marched across the RhineTo take the land of France,La dame de fer decided,‘Let’s make the tyrant dance.’Let him take the land and city,The hills and every flower,One thing he will never have,The elegant...

He who fights is powerless, but he who loves is power itself.

Aber was nennen Sie ruhig sein? Die Hände in den Schoss legen? Leiden, was man nicht sollte? Dulden, was man nicht dürfte?

Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools of resistance, there...

In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of...

If someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also…but of course if you were able to stand soberly after the first slap.

Whenever you see a board up with “Trespassers will be prosecuted,” trespass at once.

I spit out to my heart and my mind. when you collect them together, they can not show the resistance of a average dick.

It’s a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all the rough parts get left behind, thrown away. I don’t want...

[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;

Deal resistance a death blow and make sweet love to your art all night long. Put on your fishnet thigh highs and your patent leather stilettos and your special occasion lingerie. Seduce the hell out...

The role of smart, radical activists is to encourage, protract, organize, and multiply the chipping away not only at the mythology of presumed supremacy, but at power and its social and physical infrastructure. To find...

We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

It isn’t the rebels who cause the troubles of the world, it’s the troubles that cause the rebels.

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man’s deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Passive resistance is better than active acts of stupidity.

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.

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...