Resistance sayings

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◆ It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

- Leonardo da Vinci99

◆ Where there is power, there is resistance.

- Michel Foucault99

◆ Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

- Dan Millman99

◆ The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

- Susan Sontag99

◆ Resisting is worth doing.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

- Peter M. Senge99

◆ We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

- Terry Eagleton99

◆ Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

- Ulrike Marie Meinhof99

◆ I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

- Margaret Atwood99

◆ Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable.

- Michel Foucault99

◆ Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

- A.C. Crispin99

◆ If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

- Steven Pressfield99

◆ Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government, not the increase of it.

- Woodrow Wilson99

◆ It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

- Bell Hooks99