Martin Luther King Jr.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
In the life of a man, his time is but a moment...his sense, a dim rushlight. All that is body is as coursing waters...all that is of the soul, as…
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The…
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep, for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'
I didn't really say everything I said.
Regarding the debate about faith and works: It?s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance,…
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
Last night I was playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all.
I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.
The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
The argument is at an end.
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.
The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever…
Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Honeymoon: a short period of doting between dating and debating.
Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.
The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
You don't have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of…
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
The days of looking the other way while despotic regimes trample human rights, rob their nations' wealth, and then excuse their failings by feeding their people a steady diet of…
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war; it's to be prepared for peace.
A witty saying proves nothing.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.
War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Love is a verb.
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.
Advertising is the life of trade.
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
What you cannot enforce, do not command.
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence,…
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for…
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me…
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their…
Everything you want also wants you.
Beauty and folly are old companions.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.