Them Quotes

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them.

My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

All men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.