M.K. Alexander Quotes

Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity you must be respectable; even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition of despotism-the last, of liberty.

There are two critical points in every aerial flight-its beginning and its end.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

Combination is a soul of chess.

In short, Anarchism means a condition or society where all men and women are free, and where all enjoy equally the benefits of an ordered and sensible life.

The brain is not an organ to be relied upon.

With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution....This is the music everyone who has ears should hear.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

What message, years of conflagration, have you: madness or hope? On thin cheeks strained by war and liberation bloody reflections still remain.

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.

Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

My mission was that I wanted to see people on the street that I don't know wearing my clothes. That excites me.

It is better to follow out a plan consistently even if it isn't the best one than to play without a plan at all. The worst thing is to wander about aimlessly.

Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

The rules and reasons the political system employs to enforce status relations of any kind, including racial hierarchy, evolve and change as they are challenged.

The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.

The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

I'm never satisfied, I always want to do better. That's how it is to be an elite athlete, you're never happy. When you start getting happy and you start feeling satisfied, you're done.

See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.

Most women have no characters at all.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

The bourgeois stands like a question mark, Speechless, like the hungry cur, The ancient world stands there behind him, A mongrel dog, afraid to stir.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

His huff arrived and he departed in it.