“People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 125 of 1106
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.”
“He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”
“I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.”
“If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.”
“More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.”
“Critics play a dangerous game when they denounce the science and law EPA has used to defend clean air for more than 40 years. The American people know better.”
“A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor.”
“Sure every driver has his value and you want to be respected... but again money is not something that drives me.”
“What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”
“The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.”
“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.”
“I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.”
“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.”
“These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.”
“I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”
“What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.”
“A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.”
“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
“You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you”