The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
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The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Blind submission in women is considered a virtue, while submission to wrong is itself wrong, and resistance to wrong is virtue alike in women as in man.
I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
The resistance, though it comes in many forms, begins with the mistaken belief that I am somehow separate from change, and that I can control it, rather than to align myself with change as it makes itself apparent, and ride it.
One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.
Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.