Who Quotes

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

So this guy, Jeff Johnson, who is an accountant who cares nothing at all about a free press and cares nothing about journalism, he's a right winger who supported the war, you know, who two years ago told people he couldn't stand a word that I wrote.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.