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4973dc5 After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. socialism inspirational inevitability apathy marxism capitalism resistance Terry Eagleton
4f69a61 Resisting is worth doing. the-transfer dystopian resistance Veronica Roth
cb3ece5 Resistance is always lying and always full of shit. lying lies shit resistance Steven Pressfield
4b0231f The most pernicious aspect of procrastination is that it can become a habit. We don't just put off our lives today; we put them off till our deathbed. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work. resistance procrastination Steven Pressfield
f760817 Resistance is directly proportional to love. If you're feeling massive Resistance, the good news is that it means there's tremendous love there too. resistance Steven Pressfield
89c85b0 Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall. spirit inspirational ghetto nazi defiance jew resistance Leon Uris
d17ff8e Resistance is not a peripheral opponent. Resistance arises from within. It is self-generated and self-perpetuated. resistance is the enemy within. resistance Steven Pressfield
6ccab5c The more resistance you experience, the more important your unmanifested art/project/enterprise is to you - and the more gratification you will fell when you finally do it. gratification resistance Steven Pressfield
5d39d0f Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed. life seeds trees resistance Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
5b1f95a For this was the other thing that Elric knew: that to compromise with Tyranny is always to be destroyed by it. The sanest and most logical choice lay always in resistance. elric tyranny resistance Michael Moorcock
519c8df We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. hatred racism nonviolence segregation civil-rights-movement civil-rights racism-in-america peace conscience resistance protest Martin Luther King Jr.
a7adc59 To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. spirit meant-to-be purpose resistance soul Steven Pressfield
0d231c3 In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance. instant-gratification drive purpose resistance Steven Pressfield
36cb3bf We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance. fear conquer-fear resistance Steven Pressfield
403a065 Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others. navigate true-north compass resistance Steven Pressfield
4f88cf2 Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. resistance Steven Pressfield
103138b He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the sharecropper's wife in Alabama and the lama in Tibet and the entomologist in Peru and the millworker in Odessa and the greengrocer in London and the goatherd in Nigeria and the old, old man sharpening a stick by a dry streambed somewhere in Australia, and all the others. There is not one of us who has not known them. There are enough of them, enough to keep us going. Perhaps. good-and-evil resistance Ursula K. Le Guin
69f47f5 Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is. dream dreams meant-to-be meaning-of-life resistance Steven Pressfield
197a110 Its [Resistance] aim is to shove us away, distract us from doing our work. distraction resistance Steven Pressfield
cddf97f I like your anger,' the Hag said mildly. 'I like your resistance. It makes you less than courteous, but altogether more interesting. resistance Juliet Marillier
52b484d In the wild a plant and its pests are continually coevolving, in a dance of resistance and conquest that can have no ultimate victor. But coevolution ceases in an orchard of grafted trees, since they are genetically identical from generation to generation. The problem very simply is that the apple trees no longer reproduce sexually, as they do when they're grown from seed, and sex is nature's way of creating fresh genetic combinations. At the same time the viruses, bacteria, fungi, and insects keep very much at it, reproducing sexually and continuing to evolve until eventually they hit on the precise genetic combination that allows them to overcome whatever resistance the apples may have once possessed. Suddenly total victory is in the pests' sight--unless, that is, people come to the tree's rescue, wielding the tools of modern chemistry. plants pesticides resistance Michael Pollan
ec16aae "[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism." resistance longing Rebecca Solnit
ed97d7e True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. pain critical solidarity resistance Bell Hooks
7c7e0d7 "You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels." "Its own grave-diggers," he said. "But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy generated by the market. They don't exist outside the market. There is nowhere they can go to be on the outside. There is no outside." The camera tracked a cop chasing a young man through the crowd, an image that seemed to exist at some drifting distance from the moment. "The market culture is total. It breeds these men and women. They are necessary to the system they despise. They give it energy and definition. They are market-driven. They are traded on the markets of the world. This is why they exist, to invigorate and perpetuate the system." resistance cosmopolis protest Don DeLillo
364698b "To all those who I do not know, and who live in the worlds where superstition and barbarism are still dominant, and into whose hands I hope this little book may fall, I offer the modest encouragement of an older wisdom. It is in fact this, and not any arrogant preaching that come to us out of the whirlwind: "Die stimme der vernunft ist leise". Yes, The voice of reason is very soft, but it is very persistent. In this, and in the lives and minds of combatants known and unknown, we repose our chief hope." inspirational resistance Christopher Hitchens
d8fcad2 Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world. unionization labor civil-rights resist resistance protest Howard Zinn
b3010ae "We live in hope that the good we do here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. We also hope to win the war. We hope that right and goodness will triumph, and that when the war is won, we shall have a better world. And we work toward that end. We buy war bonds and put out incendiaries and knit stockings---" And pumpkin-colored scarves, Polly thought. "---and volunteer to take in evacuated children and work in hospitals and drive ambulances" - here Alf grinned and nudged Eileen sharply in the ribs - "and man anti-aircraft guns. We join the Home Guard and the ATS and the Civil Defence, but we cannot know whether the scrap metal we collect, the letter we write to a solider, the vegetables we grow, will turn out in the end to have helped win the war or not. We act in faith. "But the vital thing is that we act. We do not rely on hope alone, thought hope is our bulwark, our light through dark days and darker nights. We also work, and fight, and endure, and it does not matter whether the part we play is large or small. The reason that God marks the fall of the sparrow is that he knows that it is as important to the world as the bulldog or the wolf. We all, all must do 'our bit'. For it is through our deeds that the war will be won, through our kindness and devotion and courage that we make that better world for which we long." hope wartime world-war-2 world-war-ii london resistance Connie Willis
835f7a8 "So never give in," continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea that the Invisible lodges against the Visible. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her. Presently the waitress entered and gave her a letter from Margaret. Another note, addressed to Leonard, was inside. They read them, listening to the murmurings of the river." letter river water resistance E.M. Forster
8f1034f As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more acute, when he sent off various applications to enlist in the armed forces. I didn't want to be involved in this decision either way, especially since I was being regularly taunted for not having 'sent' any of my children to fight in the wars of resistance that I supported. (As if I could 'send' anybody, let alone a grown-up and tough and smart young man: what moral imbeciles the 'anti-war' people have become.) fathers war humour courage morality civilisation iraq war-on-terror iraq-war sons enemies resistance Christopher Hitchens
60e4add Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. resistance Steven Pressfield
375f331 The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him. determination resilience north-and-south resistance Elizabeth Gaskell
590d61e I beliebe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light. rebellion resisting shadow-and-light resistance Margaret Atwood
6dfcaec I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather no shadow unless there is also light. shadow resistance Margaret Atwood
717933c While opposing injustice nonviolently, he (Gandhi) insisted, is always morally superior to opposing it violently, opposing injustice violently is still morally superior to doing nothing to oppose it at all. violence political gandhi protests democracy resistance David Graeber
5769eac Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was nothing but an aching grey blankness... resistance Diana Gabaldon
92fa615 If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no change because a culture would have succeeded in making man submit to its patterns without resistance. But man, being only relatively malleable, has always reacted with protest against conditions which made the disequilibrium between the social order and his human needs too drastic or unbearable. The attempt to reduce this disequilibrium and the need to establish a more acceptable and desirable solution is at the very core of the dynamism of the evolution of man in history. Man's protest arose not only because of material suffering; specifically human needs...are an equally strong motivation for revolution and the dynamics of change. evolution politics malleability receptiveness society culture revolution resistance Erich Fromm
134defa Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled. war resistance Anthony Doerr
08420a5 I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No. freedom happiness utopia resistance Ursula K. Le Guin
ec92c82 In our darkest hours we may find comfort in the age-old slogan from the resistance movement, declaring that we shall not be moved. But we need to finish that sentence. Moved from where? Are we anchoring to the best of what we've believed in, throughout our history, or merely to an angry new mode of self-preservation? The American moral high ground can't possibly be an isolated mountaintop from which we refuse to learn anything at all to protect ourselves from monstrous losses. self-preservation resistance Barbara Kingsolver
c1d88d5 Aber was nennen Sie ruhig sein? Die Hande in den Schoss legen? Leiden, was man nicht sollte? Dulden, was man nicht durfte? liberation revolution resistance Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
37e2709 "The harder the push, the greater the Rebel push-back. I laughed when a Rebel friend told me, 'No one can tell me to do anything. I recently got an email saying "Please read" in the subject line, and I immediately deleted it." rebellion personality don-t-tell-me-what-i-can-t-do rebel resistance Gretchen Rubin
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