Their Quotes

Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.