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

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

America is just downright mean.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

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.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

There are some loony people in this world!

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

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

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Coffee is a language in itself.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

People love conspiracy theories.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.