“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 55 of 1106
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.”
“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”
“I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.”
“People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.”
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
“A true man does not only stand up for himself, he stands up for those that do not have the ability to.”
“God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.”
“The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.”
“The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.”
“The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.”
“I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her.”
“The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
“When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.”
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
“To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?”