Their Quotes

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.