Chartacter Quotes

Many professors tell you that you'd be good at this or that,

but they don't always help you with that career path.

Be beautiful

Be stylish

And love yourself

Give a boy address and accomplishments

and you give him the mastery of palaces

and fortunes where he goes.

The things that will destroy America are

prosperity at any price, peace at any price,

safety first instead of duty first,

the love of soft living, and the get rich quick theory of life.

Liberty cannot be established unless

the rulers are prevented from making arbitrary laws.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement

for its sustenance or promotion.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Why need I volumes,

if one word suffice?

The best executive is one who has sense

enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self

restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

Justice without force is powerless;

force without justice is tyrannical.

The only real power comes out of a long rifle.

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power

has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

Truth is stranger than fiction

fiction, but it is because

Fiction is obliged to

stick to possibilities;

Truth isn't

Never pick a fight with people

who buy ink by the barrel.

Better it is to live one day

seeing the rise and fall of things

than to live a hundred years without ever seeing it.

Heaven cannot brook two suns,

nor earth two masters.