Who Quotes

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth country and the freedom loving country.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.