Their Quotes

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Most players I play with, I don't look at their swing when they're over the ball or anything like that.

Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.