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.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

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

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

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.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

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.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

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.

Short cuts make long delays.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

War settles nothing.

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

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

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.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.