All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

A word after a word after a word is power.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

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 will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.

We have the best government that money can buy.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

We must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

For me, education was power.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

When I do a picture and it’s 90% black, like ‚Bird,‘ I use 90% black people.

Free government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.

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.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

A person’s a person, no matter how small.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

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.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Affluence means influence.

It’s a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn’t support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, ‚Well, yeah,‘ but you start to think, ‚Why not, though?‘ What makes one more valuable than another?