“I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 136 of 1106
“The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.”
“There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.”
“The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.”
“If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.”
“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
“A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.”
“I am of the opinion that the boldest measures are the safest.”
“I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.”
“I think the time is right for organizing and to give Blacks more political - the progressive Blacks, you have to make a distinction - participation, more Blacks in more authoritative positions, in more electoral political positions. But we want the right ones.”
“We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.”
“Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.”
“I'm not afraid of anything. That's just the way I am.”
“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
“The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.”
“Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity.”
“High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.”
“What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.”
“I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.”