We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

There are two kinds of idiots - those who don't take action because they have received a threat, and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.

Paulo Coelho

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste.

AlainRene Le Sage

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

Max Baucus

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

Malcolm X

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

Miles Franklin

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Oscar Wilde

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

H. Rap Brown

Fear not, provided you fear but if you fear not, then fear.

Blaise Pascal