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.

You could tell ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

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.

Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

I like definitive things.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

I don’t generally read reviews.

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

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

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

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

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

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

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity.

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

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

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

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

People love conspiracy theories.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

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.

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.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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