Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

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.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

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.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I say, ‚Yeah, Taylor Swift.‘ I think she is a smart, beautiful girl. I think she’s making all the right moves. She’s got a good head on her shoulders. She’s surrounded with wonderful people. Her songs are great. She keeps herself anchored. She knows who she is, and she’s living and standing by that.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

I am fearless.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.