We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Ethics and power are separate.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

The future is purchased by the present.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The existing world economic order constitutes a system of plundering and exploitation like no other in history. Thus, the peoples believe less and less in statements and promises.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

There are some loony people in this world!

There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Swimming has its educational value – mental, moral, and physical – in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

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

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

For me, education was power.