By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

Nonviolent struggle is the most powerful means available to those struggling for freedom.

As soon as you choose to fight with violence you're choosing to fight against your opponents best weapons and you have to be smarter than that.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

Contrary to popular opinion, even totalitarian dictatorships are dependent on the population and the societies they rule.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

If you let it bother you, it will bother you.

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

Few people can look at a painting longer than it takes to peel an orange and eat it.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.