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resistance
«Evil (ignorance) is like a shadow. It has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.»
Author: Shakti Gawain
| Keywords:
disappear, railed, railing, railings, rails, resistance, stamp, substance
«Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery follow a great victory. Do only what needs to be done without using violence.»
«Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it -- whether slowly or fast -- every form of resistance to a complete release should be abandoned.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
abandoned, abandons, fast, release, resistance, restriction, restrictions, rules, slowly, taste, The Pleasure
«A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
least resistance, obsession, obsessions, resistance, sales, sales resistance
«All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
all in, all in all, concentrates, estrangement, hardening, hardens, increases, insensible, in all, punishment, renders, resistance, strengthens
«How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
aloft, constantly, costing, costs, danger, effort, five, free, freedom, free man, highest, High Ones, individuals, measured, nations, near, neared, nearing, nears, overcome, resistance, seek, servitude, stay, steps, that nation, threshold, thresholds, type, typed, type A, typing, tyrannies, tyranny
«Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Adaptability
| Keywords:
adaptability, assimilation, imitation, resistance
«At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| Keywords:
choice, especially, fifteen, honorable, resistance, surrender, taught, undeniably
