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.

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 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.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

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

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

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

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.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

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

Law, without force, is impotent.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

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

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

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.

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

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

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

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.

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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

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

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

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

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.

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

Nature has always had more force than education.

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 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.

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.

In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.

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

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