626 Quotes About Resistance

The first step to extirpate something you don’t like is to ask it a good question.

Our society is so hell-bent on expansion, power and effiency at all costs that the folks [who question things or suggest the way something's done is not right,] are inconvenient. We slow the world down. We're on the bow of the Titanic, pointing, crying out, "Iceberg! Iceberg!" while everyone else is below deck, yelling back, "We just want to keep dancing!" It is easier to call us broken and dismiss us than to consider that we are responding appropriately to a broken world.

It is not revolution we need, another turn of the same wheel along the same path, it is resistance.

...we are partisan in favor of our own children and grandchildren, who we hope can live in a world that doesn't poison them when they drink the water, breathe the air, or make a living.

When we learn to overcome the internal resistance which we experience during holding Yoga poses while deep breathing, that resistance ultimately becomes our internal strength.

Action was life, even if it ended in death

I like the idea of that small rebellion, carrying a paper piece of the resistance in my shoes.

I get it." She nodded at Grana. "Keeping your head down is a good way to stay safe. You avoid trouble."....."But if you keep letting bullies bully other people, eventually they run out of other people.

We need to remind the peers of the bully that they benefit from bullying even if they are not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it. To chip away at the humanity of select groups is to chip away at humanity itself.