Quotes About Resistance

We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We're also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly they cannot save us

If I were to make your voice shake the foundations of the earth like thunder, would they make themselves deafer in order not to hear?

He understood then what bear it would be his lot to wrestle with. Not blacks or grizzlies. But the one that struggled for mastery within his own being and had already been identified for him: fear.

Mislila sam da ?u umaknuti tamnomu oblaku uspomena - zato sam se prijavila na ovo putovanje. Sada vidim da svijet nosimo sa sobom kamo god da krenemo. Znam da se moramo tome oduprijeti. Je li to mogu?e? Nadam se jest - ne, nadam se da jest! Svaki je ?ovjek svijet za sebe, ?itav svemir, zapravo.

Once people perceive that change is going to happen, the game often shifts from outright opposition to a competition to influence what sort of change will occur.

If you create the impression that you believe "there is no good here," the organizational immune system will certainly kick in.

The time for change is when it can no longer be resisted. In other words, when you have a man by the balls and are pulling hard, he will invariably follow in your footsteps.

For example, in intravenous (IV) solutions and kits for use in hospitals, procedures for attaching solutions to patients differ among competitive products and the hardware for hanging the IV bottles are not compatible. Here switching encounters great resistance from nurses responsible for administering the treatment and requires new investments in hardware.

O! save us, we pray thee, thou God of Heaven and of earth, from the devouring hands of the white Christians!!! . . . The whites have murder'd us, O God! . . . We believe that, for thy glory's sake, Thou wilt deliver us; But that thou may'st effect these things, Thy glory must be sought. —David Walker

Their sermons help black folk resist the evil seductions of white supremacy. Very few members go away from such homilies without hope for their future or belief in their individual importance. Very few leave without a sense of God's care for their burdens and traumas.

in a true democracy, things are often messy, ...you often don't get what you want or deserve immediately, and... you have to constantly engage, protest, resist, and negotiate.

I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.

we receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us; whereas the very reverse is required by every dictate of common sense.

Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.

The National Academy of Sciences once estimated that a total ban on the widespread feeding of antibiotics to farm animals would raise the price of poultry anywhere from one to two cents per pound and the price of pork or beef around three to six cents a pound, costing the average meat-eating American consumer up to $9.72 a year.1357 Meanwhile, antibiotic-resistant infections in the United States cost an estimated $30 billion every year1358 and kill ninety thousand people.

With few, if any, new classes of antibiotics in clinical development,674 an expert on antibiotic resistance at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy warned that "we're sacrificing a future where antibiotics will work for treating sick people by squandering them today for animals that are not sick at all.

The majority of the antibiotics produced in the world go not to human medicine but to prophylactic usage on the farm.1336 This may generate antibiotic resistance.

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat.

Diabetes mellitus is characterized by chronically elevated levels of sugar in your blood. This is because either your pancreas gland isn't making enough insulin (the hormone that keeps your blood sugar in check) or because your body becomes resistant to insulin's effects. The insulin-deficiency disease is called type 1 diabetes, and the insulin-resistance disease is called type 2 diabetes.

The executive editor of Poultry magazine put the trade-off this way in an editorial: "The prospect of a virulent flu to which we have absolutely no resistance is frightening. However, to me, the threat is much greater to the poultry industry. I'm not as worried about the U.S. human population dying from bird flu as I am that there will be no chicken to eat."3580

Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the revolution won't have to be violent.

Power cannot survive when its subjects free themselves from fear.

The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

Look at it this way, that way, face the thing squarely. Could some fool in a laboratory, he'd asked his assistants, Blow up the world with this? You could pay dearly For probing too deeply into that dark resistance Where light lay coiled in stone. He