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

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

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

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.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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

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

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.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The most violent show on TV is the six o’clock news.

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

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

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

I can’t read the newspaper without crying. I’m easily affected by horrible events, you see.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I don’t even know what the issues are. I haven’t paid attention to politics in a long time. It’s actually not something that I really even enjoy. It’s way off my radar.

We’re news junkies in my house.

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

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.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

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.

I go on The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is one of the websites that I check out.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

I’m mainstream.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista’s tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

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

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

I live in a crazy time.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

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

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

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

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

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

The U.S. couldn’t even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They’ll be killing each other again in less than a year. I’m sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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

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.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

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.

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

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