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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Character is power.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

To lead people walk behind them.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

My mother had a saying: ‚Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you’re not the last.‘

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Our goal in the ’70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

A gender line… helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I was raised to be independent.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.