Resistance Quotes

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
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. View quote
John Dewey
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. View quote
John Ruskin
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. View quote
Maya Angelou
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. View quote
André Gide
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. (Salvatore Quasimodo)
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. View quote
Philip K. Dick
The line of least resistance in the progress of civilization is to make that theoretical postulate real by the continually increasing force of the world's public opinion. View quote
Elihu Root
Effort supposes resistance. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. View quote
Marianne Moore
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. View quote
Neil Kinnock
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. View quote
Carl Jung
Heat is a universal solvent, melting out of things their power of resistance, and sucking away and removing their natural strength with its fiery exhalations so that they grow soft, and hence weak, under its glow. View quote
Vitruvius
If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary. View quote
Erich von Manstein
The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan. Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces. (Peter Arnett)
Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments. View quote
Peter Arnett
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense. View quote
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart