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"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."
"Of course, [Albert Camus] wasn't an existentialist, but he was a committed man. He was a man of combat. It wasn't for nothing that he directed the Resistance journal called Combat."
"Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be."
"The resistance to a new idea increases by the square of its importance."
"Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal."
"Sometimes we face resistance in Alberta and Canada because we already have other power sources, but this is a competitive alternative."
"The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups."
"Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome."
"Resistance to oppression is second nature."
"The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out."
"The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire."
"When you make a movie, it seems like there's nothing but resistance. It's kind of a miracle that any movie ever gets made."
"Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible."
"A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the spot in non-violent resistance."
"The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it."
"Out of resistance comes strength."
"I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism."
"it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed."
"Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have."
"Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change"
