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

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.

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

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.

All impeachments, I guess, are political.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

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

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

I pay attention to politics and technology.

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

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We’re news junkies in my house.

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

The world is too violent right now.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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’m mainstream.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We live in ugly times.

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 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.

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

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

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.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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

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

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

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

I don’t follow politics much.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.