Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

Sorry, I’m still a dialectical materialist.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.

What we all want is public safety. We don’t want rhetoric that’s framed through ideology.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

We can’t all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

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

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

I’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I have all the admiration in the world for somebody like Bono, who really puts himself on the line and tries actively to do something about our world situation.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

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.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

No one could have been nicer, classier nor better looking than Dick Clark. I’ve had a crush on him since I was a teenager.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function – that’s important, and fine, and I support it.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.