Son Quotes - Page 32

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

The fool says, "These are my sons, this is my land, this is my money." In reality, the fool does not own himself, much less sons, land, or money.

I really see no other solution than to turn inwards and to root out all the rottenness there. I no longer believe that we can change anything in the world until we first change ourselves. And that seems to me the only lesson to be learned.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, "Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person," or "I remember what that day felt like."

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song ... Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap" .. he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.

If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here.

I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens.

Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

There is nothing higher than reason.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy.