Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Silence is safer than speech.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.