Thought Quotes

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,'

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.