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The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your iPhone, no matter how swarmy, corrupt, or dangerous you are, is supposedly safe. That's also the proposition of Panamanian banking laws.
— Michael Wolff
At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.
— Kamasi Washington
The really nice thing with 'Future Past' is that you actually have a superhero film - much to everyone's surprise, I will hope - that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom.
— Chris Claremont
To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.
— Karl Barth
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man is oftentimes weak-minded enough to be caught in the snare of greed and honeyed words.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
— Epictetus
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The field of research in the doctrine of civil resistance is necessarily limited, as the occasions for civil resistance in a man's life must not be frequent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.
— Malcolm X