R.K. King Quotes

Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman!

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

It is good to put your life in other people's hands.

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.

I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

Life is a wheel, and if you wait long enough, it always comes back around to where it started.

You have to keep moving forward

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back.

We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization.

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

[I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems.

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

People would pay money to work at CNN

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.

You know what amazes me about UFO's? They never land at the White House. They always land at laramie, Wyoming. Thiry miles out, where they're seen by one farmer.

You know, people really want to hear about the issues.

When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

I used to take taekwondo and made it to brown belt.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

The secret of success is an absolute ungovernable curiosity.

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!