Quotes About Resistance

For a time I almost believed what I understood I was supposed to believe. I numbered myself among the faithful for the same reason that many in Gilead did: because it was less dangerous.

I can see this idea gathering in Cordelia as well. Maybe she's gone too far, hit, finally, some core of resistance in me. If I refuse to do what she says this time, who knows where my defiance will end?

And when I go that way, grow fur, start howling, scratch at your airwaves: no matter who I claim I am or how I love you, turn the key. Bar the window.

Rome versus the Visigoths, Ancient Egypt versus the Hyksos, Aztecs versus the Spaniards.

Being a critical thinker starts with resisting the urge to be a pleaser.

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get in?

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

I don't do well with technology.

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

We are not as strong as technology's pull.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

Wait until next time," he warned. "I'll do things that'll make you lose control within seconds.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

You must not fall. / When you lose your balance, resist for a long time before turning yourself toward the earth. Then jump. / You must not force yourself to stay steady. You must move forward.