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"I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs"
"Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up."
"The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people."
"Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it."
"Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance."
"The notion of human right builds on our shared humanity. These rights are not derived from the citizenship of any country, or the membership of any nation, but are presumed to be claims or entitlements of every human being. They differ, therefore, from constitutionally created rights guaranteed for specific people."
"But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion."
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think."
"I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going."
"The wealth of a country is its working people."
"A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all."
"Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you."
"The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy."
"War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit."
"Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it."
"I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason"
"Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?"
"They're not leading our people toward any kind of independence, but they're using their positions and their education and their talent to exploit our people worse than the slave master did during slavery."
"The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism."
