The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.

A siege is an act of war.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.