Quotes About Resistance

Undressing him reminds me of trying to change a sleepy, uncooperative four-year-old into his pajamas.-Dom

Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short lived.

Fear of creative destruction is often at the root of the opposition to inclusive economic and political institutions.

The most important lesson is that extractive institutions cannot generate sustained technological change for two reasons: the lack of economic incentives and resistance by the elites.

La lección más importante que se puede aprender es que las instituciones extractivas no pueden generar un cambio tecnológico sostenido por dos razones: la falta de incentivos económicos y la resistencia por parte de las élites.

Simplemente ocurre que no queremos hacer esfuerzos innecesarios, siendo la palabra a subrayar «innecesarios», no «esfuerzos».

Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

One night of slavery is too much.

Though I'm tempted by the call of the sea, I resist. It can't claim me. In a way I'm stronger than the waves and I feel good about that.

This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.

The discovery of "superconductors"—materials that offer no resistance to electricity even at relatively high temperatures—creates a worldwide stir of excitement among the kind of dweebs who always had their Science Fair projects done early.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

Next to the photo was a frown button that said "We denounce the Central Guatemalan Security Forces." Mae hesitated briefly, knowing the gravity of what she was about to do—to come out against these rapists and murderers—but she needed to make a stand. She pushed the button.

They started a great fire in the middle of the market, and from this fire they took burning logs and torches, and these they threw onto the roofs of most of the homes within a one-mile radius. The few men who resisted were shot. This was effectively the end of any kind of life in Marial Bai for some time. Again, the rebels for whom this was retribution were nowhere to be found.

But something about his inability to give in, to admit defeat, or to at least acknowledge the incredible power of the technology at Mae's command Ã¢â'¬Â¦ she knew she couldn't give up until she had received some sense of his acquiescence.

Who but a fringe character would try to impede the unimpeachable improvement of the world?

This is because self-reliance is one of the things authoritarians try to take away first.

John exposes Pax Romana and Pax Augusta to be bald-faced lies. He does not allow his hearers to ignore the fact that a great deal of violence has gone into creating and sustaining empire, for example, in the brutal suppression of the Jewish Revolt. How is it truly a matter of "peace" if you use overwhelming force to subdue a country that never wished to be a part of your empire in the first place?

To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.

I knew what I had to do. I had to ignore the thoughts, resist the compulsion, let the anxiety build, and then let it decay to extinction all over again.

But to hell with them. Let's give them something to infect their waking and fire their dreams.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it.

They made you hate everyone, even the ones who were like you. That is what they do, so the prisoners will not rise up against them.