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Will is nobler than truth

Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anything; everywhere and all the time.

With Love, the pivot of change emerges, the lever stretches long enough to move the world, the arc of the universe bends toward justice, the spirit of humanity soars, and the flood of life revives.

Within a diverse swarm of individuals and small groups, resistance can be anywhere and anytime; everywhere and all the time.

Without Love, humanity dies of thirst, grasps at riches, destroys the earth through insatiable greed. Without Love, we are walking dust, dead matter stumbling from the dawn of birth to the dusk of death. Without Love, our Earth is stripped of beingness, left barren and lifeless, a pile of rocks and resources, objects to possess and control. Without Love, humanity sleepwalks as automatons, controlled, manipulated, and shoved through a nightmarish existence.

Yet, the existential intellection has disregarded the possibility that a coming-into-being as not a finality but a process and that it is a making of meaning from the ground zero, for we are incomplete beings. Being is nothing but containment of essence, and the precedent-will has to be taken a priori to coming-to-being. Because we are choosing to become a volitional being.

You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.

You can break my bone, but you can’t break my spirit without my permission

You don't have problems, you have resistance.

You can't stop the gears of capitalism. But you can always be a pain in the ass.

You can't stop Greatness; you can only try to delay it. And when you try to delay it, it just gets Greater because it gains new strength.

You don’t have to be afraid—" "I am always afraid!" I don’t know what shocks me more—the power in my voice or the words themselves. Afraid. I am always afraid. It’s a truth I locked away years ago, a fact I fought hard to overcome.

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.

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

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 don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system.

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

Your silent rebellion is unstoppable.

All models experience resistance during their modeling careers; the point is just to remain yourself and make meaningful and genuine decisions.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

As resistance works to keep us from becoming who we were born to be, equal and opposite powers are counterpoised against it. These are our allies and angels.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

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

Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm.

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human thought - even more than this, the instinct is as old as life upon the earth.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.