Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Jimmy Carter

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual human rights. We do not seek to intimidate, but it is clear that a world which others can dominate with impunity would be inhospitable to decency and a threat to the well-being of all people.

Jimmy Carter

I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.

Jimmy Carter

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.

Jimmy Carter

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life...

Henry David Thoreau

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

H. L. Mencken

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.