A Quote by Herman Melville

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville
American - Novelist
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

America Ferrera

I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.

Randy Pausch

If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as virtues the earnest saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is so disastrous. Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

Randy Pausch

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Donald Miller

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Charles Spurgeon

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

Al Sharpton

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

Henry Fielding

During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

Norm MacDonald

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Kurt Vonnegut

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Mahatma Gandhi

We talk to each other in code. We said that 420 was a special number. It was a time. It was a date. It was a symbol for what we did for passive resistance.

Rick Cusick

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