Top 1200 Non Violent Resistance Quotes & Sayings - Page 17
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.
I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
No matter how liberal or modern a family is, there will always be resistance when someone discloses that they are dating someone.
Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed.
We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes
Racism in Brazil is well hidden, subtle, and unspoken, underestimated by the media. It is nevertheless extremely violent.
You can't blame a victim for being under the influence when there is a violent act [happening to them]. These are two separate things.
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.
The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.
The entire Quran is a big joke. If it was not so violent, it would be the biggest comic book ever written.
Radicalisation or the risk of children being drawn into non violent extremism is a very real threat in this country.
I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.
Regrettably, what we are now seeing is that the new U.S. government with Donald trump is stuck in the same old, partisan thinking patterns in terms of our resistance. That is a mistake.
I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
It was once understood that resistance is a serious crime because it necessarily triggers an escalation of violence that endangers the life not only of the police office, but also the suspect.
Resistance to team play seemed to pour like wet cement through my bones, displacing supple marrow, until I was ballasted with my own contempt.
It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.
Research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.
Leading from a place of hate only fuels hateful and violent acts across our country.
Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.
Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!
'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
In the harsh and violent Middle East surrounding us, there is no mercy for the weak. Only the strong survive!
Since 9/11, some of the most violent terrorists we've encountered were radicalized or recruited at universities.
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion.
I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.
Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain.
Number one, as an audience member, I tend to like violent movies and TV shows because it's not real.
When you are in anger, in passion, violent, aggressive, you feel a crystallized ego within you. Whenever you are in love, in compassion, it is not there.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.
Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.
Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.
As we've gotten older, we've used resistance bands more and more.
Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.
You either approve of violence or you don't, and nothing on earth is more violent or extreme than the meat industry.
Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
