Resistance Quotes

Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second to sweeten and embellish the lot of the oppressed with empty promises of a heavenly kingdom.

Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

What you resist, persists.

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you’re mean.

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.

People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?

People often resist change when they don’t participate in the decision-making process. Some of the best leaders ‘plant the seed’ that permits others to propose the idea and take credit for it!

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.