Best 458 quotes in «resistance quotes» category

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

Only love can penetrate all your karmas and resistances and set your heart on fire with the awareness of its true nature.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Resistance keeps you stuck. Surrender immediately opens you to the greater intelligence that is vaster than the human mind, and it can then express itself through you. So through surrender often you find circumstances changing.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

Sweet Spirit, grant us the faith to resist our resistance to Thee!

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

The act of civil disobedience is the act of taking our anger and turning it into sacred rage. It is a personal and collective gesture of resistance and insistance.

The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.

The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.

The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs.

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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

There is no greater power than the power of love, which arises from Presence. It overcomes all resistance.

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.

There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

The repeated announcements that the Russian resistance was definitely broken have been proved to be untrue.

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

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

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance

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

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.