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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.