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

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

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

I don’t follow politics much.

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

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

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

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

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

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

The lies of the empire and the treason of the quislings shall be defeated.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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

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.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I live in a crazy time.

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.

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.

The world is too violent right now.

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

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.

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

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.

We live in ugly times.

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

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.

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that’s why we came to America.

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

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.

I’m mainstream.

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.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

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.

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

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

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.

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.

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 pay attention to politics and technology.