Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
Resistance and nonviolence are not in themselves good. There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.
You have to make the decision about whether you want to avoid or you want to overcome the resistance.
Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance.
We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church.
We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.
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.
Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat.
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.
Caring is love. And love fights! Love doesn't look for the path of least resistance.
To fly, we must have resistance.
[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.
I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also. . . paralyses our powers of resistance to them.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.