Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mahatma GandhiI had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
Muhammad AliMy dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
Dolores HuertaI wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.
Ernest HemingwayI have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything.
Greta ThunbergI mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.
Christopher HitchensIf the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan PoePeople who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
George EliotTechnique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
Oscar WildeSuspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph AddisonHumans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That’s human nature.
Noam ChomskyI had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David BowieWe should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Mahatma GandhiThe healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl JungSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham LincolnWe write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
Maya AngelouIt is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
Lady GagaI’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.
Elvis PresleyMystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Neil ArmstrongIn many ways, I’ve been writing personal stories all my life.
Alice MunroIt’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.
Angelina JolieI’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
Tom BradyA vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Charles SpurgeonAs a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.
BonoMan seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. ChestertonNothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas CarlyleI liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.
Maya AngelouI don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.
Ernest HemingwayIt’s kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else’s hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
EminemThe aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George OrwellIf I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.
Billie EilishThe fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
ChanakyaWho you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
Vivienne WestwoodMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonI am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
Lady GagaEverybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James BaldwinI have the space and liberty to create.
Bad BunnyI think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.
Woody AllenStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusI think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.
Bad BunnyMan is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George OrwellI’d rather tell you how I really feel.
DrakeI’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
John LennonI like to be creative.
RihannaWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconI have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.
Haruki MurakamiMan becomes his most creative during war.
Clint EastwoodIt is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Niccolo MachiavelliClothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.
Billie EilishI tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
Vivienne WestwoodEvery man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
Friedrich NietzscheA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham MaslowMy apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage – they’re just not stages you’re allowed to see.
Lady GagaWhy is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark TwainI always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.
EminemRevenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon