Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
Noam ChomskyWhat’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIn order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.
Albert CamusWe become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy CarterAmerica means far more than a continent bounded by two oceans. It is more than pride of military power, glory in war, or in victory. It means more than vast expanse of farms, of great factories or mines, magnificent cities, or millions of automobiles and radios.
Herbert HooverOur brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
Barack ObamaWe must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
Richard M. NixonFor so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.
Michelle ObamaThere are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
Billy GrahamI don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
Lady GagaMany interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘
Colin PowellNeither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul SartreI long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
Maya AngelouRastafari not a culture, it’s a reality.
Bob MarleyI entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.
Pope FrancisThe mainstream is always under attack.
Bill GatesI play a nobody in Japan.
Jackie ChanRacism is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisIn 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.
Kanye WestI feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLike 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.
Aldous HuxleyTaylor Swift’s audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
The WeekndWe didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
Joe BidenAnybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
Ruth Bader GinsburgAlone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen KellerYou’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Joe BidenYou don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray BradburyThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich NietzscheThere’s pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don’t get to know everybody, I don’t get to go to their ballgame, I don’t get to marry everybody, but the pros are you get all this community, 800 ushers come in to serve, getting there at 7 in the morning on their day off and coming in on Saturday to make all those wafers.
Joel OsteenTrue self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.
Thich Nhat HanhIn too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.
Barack ObamaWe’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.
Jordan PetersonLove… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil GibranWe want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.
DJ KhaledBy what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?
Abraham LincolnGod tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.
Dolly PartonWe are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston ChurchillVirtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
ConfuciusIf you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.
Thich Nhat HanhOpposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HeraclitusMy doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.
Kanye WestFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil GibranI’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.
Maya AngelouI do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.
Dolly PartonThe country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Clint EastwoodEvery utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?
Margaret AtwoodStill and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt VonnegutI want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.
Angelina JolieWe 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.
Barack ObamaThe Son of God became incarnate in the souls of men to instill the feeling of brotherhood. All are brothers and all children of God.
Pope FrancisWe can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘
Abraham LincolnOnce you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
Erma BombeckI just think overall there’s not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.
Joyce MeyerMy connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.
Paulo CoelhoI’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.
David ByrneI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowieA bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
Jerry SeinfeldBy giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar WildeThe decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePeople from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!
Richard Branson