Should Quotes

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

All UK nuclear power stations should be shut down without delay.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

We all must recognize that homeland security funds should be allocated by threat and no other reason.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?

Women should be obscene and not heard.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.