No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Here’s the thing: every office I’ve run for I was the first to win. First person of color. First woman. First woman of color. Every time.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.