187 Resistance Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Salvatore Quasimodo

Creative Words Poet Judgment Punish Moral Someone Poetic Prophetic Never True True Poet His Order Scripture Certainty Uses Resistance Belongs

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. Salvatore Quasimodo

Example Has-Been Importance Know Been Shining Modern Europeans Conscience Resistance

Austria used to see itself as the first victim of National Socialism. That is certainly true for all those who fought in the resistance, whom we cannot thank enough, and who will always be shining examples. But... the ones who stood in such great numbers and celebrated in March 1938 in Heroes' Square were no victims. Sebastian Kurz

Great Socialism Heroes Will First National Victim Enough Those We Cannot See Examples True Always Were Shining Itself Celebrated Austria Square Thank Stood Cannot Victims Used Certainly Who Fought Whom March Resistance Numbers

The resistance to science is idiotic. Seth MacFarlane

Science Idiotic Resistance

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.' Siri Hustvedt

Parents Seems Insomnia Fair Call Bed Terrors Normal Common Middle Children Crawling Them Among Resistance Night Nightmares Sleep

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed. Stephen Kinzer

Business Latin States Latin American Collapsed Bitter Embodied Budget Budget Cuts Call Principles Sought Foreign Impose Ultimately Campaign Governments Privatization American Cuts Deregulation Incentives Companies Washington United United States Consensus Resistance

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture. Steve Albini

Music Culture Club Systemic Easy Embraced Entire Someone Stuck Almost Idea Idiom Been Trying Cranking Mean Extent Resistance

If you want to send a manuscript, send it to an agent. And send a letter first, asking permission. Launch it into the real world of cold-blooded commercial response, not into the fantasyland of wishful thinking, cowardice and surrender to Resistance. Steven Pressfield

You Surrender World First Cowardice Thinking Response Launch Wishful Wishful Thinking Permission Real Commercial Send Want The Real World Real World Agent Asking Manuscript Letter Resistance

I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men. Tawakkol Karman

Fruit Women Men Possible Similar Both Civilization Relying Without Always Women And Men Effort Human Repression Human Civilization Against Believed Resistance Violence

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing. Thom Mayne

Service Good You People Architecture Weak Good Thing Deliver Look Passive Very Authenticity Get Blue Any Represents Where Want Door Autonomy Profession Fought Thing Resistance Violently

Bacteria evolve, and so they become resistant to existing drugs. Sometimes they revert, depending on how damaging the mutation is to the life cycle of the bacteria. Mutations that give rise to resistance against particular compounds do increase, and that is why you constantly have to have new ones. Thomas A. Steitz

Life You Sometimes Become Increase Evolve Bacteria Mutation Mutations Constantly Compounds Rise Give New Particular How Revert New Ones Existing Depending Against Cycle Why Resistance Resistant Damaging

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight. Tim Daly

I have a natural resistance to being humiliated. Tom Conti

Natural Humiliated Being Resistance

The King Holiday is a celebration of many things - his pursuit of racial justice, his commitment to non-violent resistance, his belief in service and doing for others. But you might also call it the other Labor Day. Tom Perez

Service Day You Justice Commitment Labor Day King Other Others Pursuit Also Call Non-Violent Doing His Labor Celebration Holiday Might Racial Many Belief Things Resistance

The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt. Toussaint Louverture

Enemy Liberty Resolved Our Destroy Brought Proper Only Town Force Fallen Were Up Hands Blown Intentions After Burnt Ashes Plain Cape Whites Therefore Found Resistance

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible. Vaclav Smil

Will Otherwise Some Netherlands Countries Like Terrible Reducing Denmark Lots Antibiotics Just Either Them Create Grow Pork Resistance

Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place. William A. Dembski

You Natural Will Insects First Bacteria Selection First Place How Get Gain Place Explain Explains Natural Selection Certainly Resistance

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to. Winona LaDuke

Me Guidance School Thought Harvard East Out Would Would-Be Pretty Counselor League Schools Yale Go Were Ivy Ivy League Get Wanted Asked Act Cool Applied Resistance

Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first. Wolfgang Schauble

Light Will First Saw Further Possible Steps Countries New Institutions Always Fiscal Limits Continue Integration Optimism Germany Quite Stood Regard Pact Create Euro Resistance Zone Britain

The last thing I wanted to do was act, because it was the path of least resistance. Wyatt Russell

Path Because Least Wanted Act Thing Last Resistance

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict. Salman Rushdie

Game Addict Complete Say Some After Game Of Thrones Initial Now Resistance

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist. Erin O'Connor

Fashion You People Style Think Panic I Think Moral Some About No Reason Tendency Highlighting Talk Agenda Ethical Reason Why Origins Garments Conscience Bringing Resistance Incorporate

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. Noam Chomsky

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