All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school, so it was unfamiliar to me, the idea of a German resistance, and yet it was considerable.
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.
If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the 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.
Resistance is the first step to change.
To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.
We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.
The path of least resistance will never make you proud.
Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.
[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.
So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.
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.
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.