Quotes About Resistance

The Browns were holding a council of war in the dining room, and Mr. Brown was fighting a losing battle.

Kornblum was, nevertheless, unable to resist offering that final criticism to his erstwhile pupil on his performance that night. "Never worry about what you are escaping from," he said. "Reserve your anxieties for what you are escaping to.

There's a fool of a devil in him that wants to feel the thrum of current. There's a current in him that wants to feel the devil in the wire.

Fighting it the way a salmon fights against the current of the river in which it's going to die. Like a salmon --- that aquatic Zionist, forever dreaming of its fatal home.

But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer...

For every noble movement or advancement in the human endeavor across time, there were always betrayers who set everything a step back.

You don't like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

The intrusion of the government into our lives is pervasive. Where do we make a stand? I'm making mine right here.

You have to realize, all these decisions are about power. Sexual harassment is about power, and so is the company's resistance to dealing with it.

I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists.

He says, 'I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.' 'You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all.' 'But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and then you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

a business that 'gets small again' is a business reduced to the level of its owner's personal resistance to change, to its owner's Comfort Zone

a business that 'gets small again' is a business reduced to the level of its owner's personal resistance to change, to its owner's Comfort Zone, in which the owner waits and works, works and waits, hoping for something positive to happen.

martial people, however, it was not long before Maori began to use muskets in inter-tribal

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it's comforting; because it's so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.

rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine

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Los psicólogos de finales de los años cuarenta habían detectado, o afirmaban haber detectado, que la mente tenía la capacidad para defenderse de lo que en apariencia no quería percibir.

Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity," writes Kate Brown.)

is creating problems for bureaucrats who suffer from malignant obedience.

They stopped testing me. And if you're not going to test me, I'm gonna smoke!

At this point she had a long list of the ways the CDC, with the help of their former employee and her current boss, had made it more difficult for her to do her job. Now they were trying to add to it, by interfering with the best chance California had to track the virus and limit its damage.

If this story has a soul, it is in the decisions made by its principal characters to resist the temptation of easy money and to pay special attention to the spirit in which they live their working lives. I didn't write about them because they were controversial. I wrote about them because they were admirable.