The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older you realize everything she said was true.
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
I'm not happy all the time and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
On a day when you're tired it's important to just say good morning to everyone so they're kind of aware that it's gonna be a good day. Jamie Lee Curtis told me that.
You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music relationships being a good person loving people the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
Manners is the key thing. Say for instance when you're growing up you're walking down the street you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
The old cathedrals are good but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Like every man of sense and good feeling I abominate work.
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess and no matter how good one's sentiments may be if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences I often read poetry.