I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

The unyielding resistance of the Cuban patriots is symbolized by our 5 Heroes. They shall never back down! They shall never surrender!

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People’s Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Cuba has become a symbol of courageous resistance to attack. Since 1959, Cuba has been under attack from the hemispheric superpower.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.