The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

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.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

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.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

In 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.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

When I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

O‘ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

We are all alike, on the inside.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country – I know, because I am one of them.

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny’s Child put out ‚Independent Women,‘ and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

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

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

It’s just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we’re in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?