The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

People like to talk about war.

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

I take my sleep very, very important.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

The government of Israel doesn’t like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

There’s no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, ‚The government’s corrupt,‘ and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.

The passive aggressive arguer comes armed with tricky tactics. They cannot take the risk that they might be wrong: their self-esteem is too intertwined with their opinions. It is more important to affirm their rightness, and sense of superiority, than to arrive at the truth.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.

Mubarak was oppressing and pillaging his own people. He was an enemy to the Palestinians and an accomplice of Israel, the sixth nuclear power on the planet, associated with the war-mongering NATO group.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.