Them Quotes

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

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.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.