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.

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

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

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

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.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

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.

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

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

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

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

It is important to emphasize that guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people. The guerrilla band is an armed nucleus, the fighting vanguard of the people. It draws its great force from the mass of the people themselves.

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.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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

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

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

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

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

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.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

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.

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

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 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.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

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

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

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.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

In the final choice a soldier’s pack is not so heavy as a prisoner’s chains.

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

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

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

Nature has always had more force than education.

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

I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.

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

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

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.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.