Happiness is equal to work minus resistance.
A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance.
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance.
Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.
Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!
Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.
But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.
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.
We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.
It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.
The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in challenging; it was ineptitude - a grey spread of cotton that seemed soft and shapeless, that could offer no resistance to anything or anybody, yet managed to be a barrier in her way. She stood, disarmed, before the riddle of what made this possible, she could find no answer.
Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.
Every beautiful poem is an act of resistance.
In reality, that was going to be very messy from an antitrust standpoint and meet a lot of resistance from the top management at Hasbro. That was a whole different story.
Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.