There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

I will say this: In order for the planet to survive, there are going to be acts of ecoterrorism.

I haven't seen a single institution in the corporate world operating smoothly without a HR team.

We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.

It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

My day begins early in the morning when I go for a morning walk and ends when I feel that I am tired.

I don't believe any Western journalists, quite frankly. I believe they're liars until proven otherwise.

I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a good student.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Osama Bin Laden is not going to come here and destroy America. Our education system is doing that just fine.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also, going up, one week before he was shot.

My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

I want to be a children’s hero… Children need heroes because heroes give hope; without hope they have no future.

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.

Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

The sensibilities and the emotions of Muslims must be taken into consideration in the context in which we live today.

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

I believe Islam is superior. And will not be surpassed. So I believe that the law of God is much superior to man-made law.

I don't want to be a leader. I want to be one who goes around with a little oil can and offer help when I see a breakdown.

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

[Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list.

I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

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