#resist

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#human #humanism #resistance #injustice

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#breaking #conquer #consists #enemy #excellence

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. ↗

— John Barton

#dramatic #inevitably #lives #poets #pull

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#go #imaginations #jar #life #little

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#choose #gender #i #ignore #just

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#changes #creates #flow #forward #life is a

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#after #argument #continuation #may #mean

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#consists #enemy #excellence #fighting #resistance

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#better #blow #depends #either #fly

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current