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

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

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

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

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

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

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

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.

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

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

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.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

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.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

I think life is a matter of choices and that wherever we are, good or bad, is because of choices we make.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

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

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

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

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

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it’s also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

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

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

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

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

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

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