Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

‚Kiss Land‘ wasn’t about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mind I was in – introverted, like David Cronenberg’s ‚Naked Lunch.‘ You didn’t know if you were hearing a chorus or a verse. It was just my thoughts.

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

I’m the only president you’ve got.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.

I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I wasn’t a kid growing up thinking, ‚One day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech.‘ That wasn’t on my mind.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

I don’t mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Silence is safer than speech.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

I go to sleep thinking about my kids being spoiled and I wake up thinking about it.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Be the chief but never the lord.