Resistance Quotes

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respectful.
Alexandra Paul

Short, Respectful

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.
Evo Morales

Change, Impossible

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
Kevin Bacon

Actor, Singing, Industry

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.
Johnny Rotton

Life, Power, Live

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.
Jose Saramago

Political, Thinking, Revolution

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Experience, Woman, Her

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.
Ashley Greene

Good, Mind, Focus

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.
Iyanla Vanzant

Ego, Give, Place

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
Rainn Wilson

Life, Power, Why

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
Muqtada al Sadr

Honest, Until, Desire

Who is against democracy? Is it the one who calls for peaceful resistance, or the one who bombs people, sheds their blood and leads them away from the leaders under feeble and dirty pretexts?
Muqtada al Sadr

Democracy, Away, Against

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.
Ian Mcewan

Successful, Important, Duty

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
Moshe Sharett

High, Hardship, Remain

When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
Bashar al-Assad

Country, Small, Started

Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.
David McNally

Enemy, Down, Serious

Gaza has 1.2 million Palestinians living in crowded places and the resistance will be strong.
Ahmed Yassin

Strong, Living, Places

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
Ahmed Yassin

Until, Palestine, Continue

The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.
Henning Mankell

Change, Work, Live

Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
Livy

Late, Criminal, Rashness

We're still stymied by the old stand-off between those who wish to fight terrorism and resistance fighters.
Gijs de Vries

Fight, Wish, Old

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.
Alan Cumming

Small, Short, Sometimes

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
Jon Landau

Work, Time, Same

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.
Bob Barr

Power, Government, Big

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
Constance Baker Motley

Black, Away, Separate

There is a rule of Sharia: If the enemy wants to suppress you, you are supposed to put up a strong resistance.
Akhmad Kadyrov

Strong, Enemy, Put

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.
Oliver North

Money, Thought, Idea

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.
Ricardo Montalban

Work, Religion, Strong

What is being talked about now is the probability of the Sharon government launching an attack against Lebanon to eliminate the resistance of Hezbollah by using the American war against Iraq. But, of course, in this case, we will certainly fight with all our strength.
Hassan Nasrallah

Strength, War, Government

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
Danny Glover

Hope, Struggle, Small

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Meshell Ndegeocello

Strength, Leaders, Passive

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