Rant Quotes

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

An ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction.

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in the body. The time may come when penicillin can be bought by anyone in the shops. Then there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.

An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason... Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

I waited at the counter of a white restaurant for eleven years. When they finally integrated, they didn't have what I wanted.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.