“You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.”

“There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.”

Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army

“Only idiots refuse to change their minds.”

Brigitte Bardot (1934) French model, actor, singer and animal rights activist

“Until you change the sub conscience mind, you cannot say that you have learned something. If something is worth learning, you should stick with it until you have changed your subconscious mind.”

Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) Japanese aikidoka

“They can do it. Just leave them alone. That's a lifestyle I don't want to touch.”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

“You ruined everything good
Always said you were misunderstood
Made all my moments your own
Just fucking leave me alone.”

Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change. And that’s precisely what our society is doing!”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

“Refuse to be a subject of ignorance people. Do what can change their minds for good. Because, in the champions of them, lies no comfort of humanity.”

Idegu Ojonugwa Shadrach (1995)

“When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody bad enough, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.”

Richard Kuklinski (1935–2006) American contract killer

“[…] your own are burning and your memories and you don't want to leave them. Everything will burn to the end, you suffer, but nobody is punishing you, they are just setting your soul free. Don't be afraid because while you fear death they will rend your soul like demons. Only calm down and you will see the angels who are setting you free and then you will be free.”

Dimitris Lyacos (1966) Greek writer