“Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.” HumansFightingNaturalConditionsMilitaryDangerousObstaclesResistanceUncertainHazardsFormidable Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.” WellsMadeWarPrinciplesRiskConditionsKeysResistanceGrantsYieldRetirementWiserHonorableAssaultVigorousFortressesCapitulation Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“You might say, 'What a dreadful day', without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are not dreadful. They are as they are. What is dreadful is your reaction, your inner resistance to it, and the emotion that is created by that resistance.” MightRealizingEmotionConditionsWindColdRainReactionsResistance Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost.” PeopleCoursesLostPowerfulConditionsEventsRedOvercomingHotIndividualityBlowBoundariesResistanceIronSpheresMetalsSheetsHammersIdenticalSteamIrritationReflexesCubesInexorableRed Hot Book:History of the Russian Revolution Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score too soon. And when they still find unwanted symptoms or conditions, they then offer resistant thought and lose the improved ground they have gained. With consistent releasing of resistance, all unwanted conditions will subside, returning you to your natural state of Well-Being.” PeopleWellsStillsStatesLosesNaturalCommonHealingConditionsOffersResistanceRecoveryWell BeingScoreConsistentSymptomsUnwantedCommon Things Author:Esther Hicks
“Trying to avert foreclosures, once you can't just force the banks to do it as a condition of getting aid, means that you have to put some public money into it or you have to do other things that are politically unpopular. From the macroeconomic standpoint there is overwhelming need to help people reduce what they owe so that we don't get the foreclosures and we don't get people kicked out of their homes. On the other hand, there is great resistance politically to helping people, not all of whom would be worth recipients of the help.” PeopleNeedsTryingMeanHelpingHomeHandsWould BeForceConditionsAidsResistanceOverwhelmingHelping PeopleStandpointAvertMacroeconomicsPublic MoneyForeclosure Author:Barney Frank
“I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.” ShouldDifferentViolenceConditionsMovementMaterialsApproachArguingResistanceActivistTransformingTransDifferent Approach Author:Dean Spade