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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

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

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

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.

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 complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

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

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.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

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

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.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

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

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

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

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

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

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.

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

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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

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

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.

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.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

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

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.

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.

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.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I have already demonstrated, by crucial tests, the practicability of signaling by my system from one to any other point of the globe, no matter how remote, and I shall soon convert the disbelievers.

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 decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

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

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?