Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

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

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

I don’t think I’m supposed to boss other people around just because I’m a so-called celebrity or star. I hate that when people act that way. No one deserves it. I’ve seen it happen. I don’t call those people out – they know who they are. Some enjoy that reputation.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

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

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.