Passive Resistance Quotes

Passive Resistance Quote of the day

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand—passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

It is what it is because you let it be so.

Her stillness defeated his storm.