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"The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous."
"A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy."
"Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts."
"The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people."
"Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor."
"There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach."
"I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am."
"Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them."
"You cannot save people. You can only love them."
"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."
"There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves."
"I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating."
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms."
"It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it’s inevitable"
"People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty."
"'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people."
"Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves."
"There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me."
"People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?"
