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"Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again."
"Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people."
"Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries."
"There's something about having people around you giving you support that is - it's motivating, and once I got that support from people then I believed I could do anything."
"The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it"
"In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it."
"Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life."
"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so."
"Most people chasing their dreams don't see the bigger picture, they just see the silhouette. Make the vision real!"
"Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists"
"I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador."
"I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together."
"Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it."
"If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."
"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds."
"Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people."
"Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."
"I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people ... I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it."
