“To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 238 of 1106
“If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.”
“Never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down.”
“Do not kick against the pricks.”
“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.”
“People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.”
“The hardest thing about the business is minding your own”
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.”
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
“I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.”
“Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”
“The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.”
“Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”
“Violence diminishes our humanity.”
“Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.”
“I've learned one hell of a lot about men in my lifetime. They're all right to take to bed, but you sure better never let them get a stranglehold on you.”
“Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.”
“The stone that the builder refused shall be the head corner stone.”
“Courage is the moment when an ordinary being becomes an extraordinary being.”
“George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.”