People Quotes - Page 99

Those who control what young people are taught, and what they experience - what they see, hear, think, and believe - will determine the future course for the nation.

If you cut people off from what nourishes them spiritually, something in them dies.

Let the dogs of the empire bark, that's their job; ours is to battle to achieve the true liberation of our people.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.

I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, What the heck are you doing? but its ok if they dont understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

I sing to the realists, people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but for some people, I guess feelin' takes courage.

Being a barber is about taking care of the people.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape. A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right.

People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.

It is not great wealth in a few individuals that proves a country is prosperous, but great general wealth evenly distributed among the people. . .