The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don’t set out to say anything very important.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

I’m a people’s man – only the people matter.

People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

2018 is an incredibly important election year, not just with the important midterms here in the U.S., but you just had the Mexican elections. You have Brazil. You have India coming up at the beginning of next year. There’s an assortment of elections around the EU. We’re very serious about this. We know that we need to get this right.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.