The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

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

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.

Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution – this revolution – is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The Welsh people have a talent for acting that one does not find in the English. The English lack heart.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.