We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.
May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Let me give you some advice, bastard: Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you – that’s my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there “is” such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.
Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.
If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.
If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.
Boards don’t hit back.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
In any war, you put your back to mine, I put my back to yours, and let’s do what we gotta do.
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.