#resistance

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#assess #endures #how #i #knows

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#even #even worse #feel #fight #giving

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#been #besides #boarding #boarding school #both

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #certain #government #i #i wish

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#bears #black #could #does #effective

I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#anarchy #because #believe #bully #gandhi

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. ↗

— John Ruskin

#compromise #either #evil #may #peace

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#occupier #remain #resistance

We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#iraqis #kill #means #occupier #only