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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.

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.

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 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 moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

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.

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

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Good ideas, as we have seen, are not always well received, especially if there are too many of them.

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

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.

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

However, the combination of civil resistance, of large-scale mass activities and strikes, with a certain degree of revolutionary violence, could provoke a crisis in the enemy's camp that would ultimately lead to essential changes.

I am devoting my lecture in this seminar to a discussion of the possibility that we are now entering a Jewish century, a time when the spirit of the community, the non-ideological blend of the emotional and rational and the resistance to categories and forms will emerge through the forces of anti-nationalism to provide us with a new kind of society. I call this process the Judaization of Christianity because Christianity will be the vehicle through which this society becomes Jewish.

I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

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

I do feel songwriting is a bit of its own creature and the writerliness of it...it's freeing. It's good for people who have an innate resistance to any restrictions whatsoever.

I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

If the police believed that they were planning any form of resistance against the state, then you were just gone. Nobody knew where you were, and you just hoped to see that family member again.

If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.