Quotes About Resistance

Bacteria evolve, and so they become resistant to existing drugs. Sometimes they revert, depending on how damaging the mutation is to the life cycle of the bacteria. Mutations that give rise to resistance against particular compounds do increase, and that is why you constantly have to have new ones.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

I noticed that parts of the opposition have been hostile to any revision of the constitution.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

Mycorrhizal networks have been shown to move water to areas of drought, confer resistance against toxic surroundings or disease, and even support interplant communication. The fungi often benefit by getting access to carbohydrates, while the plants are supplied with a greater store of water and minerals such as phosphorus that the fungi free up from the soil. Carbon has been shown to migrate, via mycorrhizal networks, from paper birch to Douglas fir trees.

The Munich students provided a spectacular example of resistance put down by the Gestapo;

William the Conqueror's campaigns against the rebels have usually been dealt with very briefly and resistance has been summarily dismissed as ineffective, largely because in the end, that resistance was overcome in a singularly brutal manner. Even

You would think the church and its leaders would be all for healthy leadership and whatever it takes to achieve it. But the truth is that there are parts of church leadership culture that actually work hard against it.

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People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

The war between light and darkness is not fought between countries, ethnic groups, or religious factions, but waged within each of us, every day.

Fear binds people together in a way that cannot be achieved by other means. Those who would convert the people back to the old ways need fear, need something that will drive

Our oversized brains evolved, in large part, to detect and resist manipulation by those who want to get ahead at our expense.

Newton's First was a real bitch, not open to negotiation.

Semmelweis reflex. They

I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the task and possibilities which are inherently its own. Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence. In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings, and speak its own language.

Social movements are understood in relations to the openings they instigate in the political constellation of society as well as the closures that inevitably follow such openings.

Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed.

Pain is the price you pay for resisting life.

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

Call it peace or call it treason, call it love or call it reason, but I ain't marching anymore.

But our land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom, and they twist away our fate. Fear is their weapon, and treason is their cry. We can stop them if we try.