Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practice to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

Antonin Artaud

Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What you know about the people whom you know at all well is truly amazing, even though you have never formulated it.

Harry Stack Sullivan

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

David Friedman

I'm not on a mission. I'm not a paragon of health for anybody. I'm not going to run a marathon or model for 'Men's Health' or go on bike rides with Lance Armstrong. I'm not. Trust me.

Duff Goldman

A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics.

Samuel Himmel

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

John Wayne

There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others; those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

Jonathan Edwards

The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.

Jesse Jackson

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Charles Dickens

No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry.

Maurice Gibb

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.

Earl Warren