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

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I’m mainstream.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 live in a crazy time.

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.

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

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

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

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’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

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

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.

We’re news junkies in my house.

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 pay attention to politics and technology.

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

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.

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

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

We live in ugly times.

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

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

I don’t follow politics much.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.‘

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

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

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

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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.

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.

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

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

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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