It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

The United States is a violent military state. It’s been involved in military action all over the place.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States – and war is what they got.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.