R.K. King Quotes

Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

If sexual relations between consenting adults are not part of the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution, then American democracy is in trouble.

We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done.

Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.

You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.

I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.

Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Animal rights activists gives disillusioned feminists an excuse to go back to being women protecting wee creatures without compromising their radical credentials

Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

If you do something, expect consequences

I want to live a full life - period.

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity

Our goal is to create a beloved community," said Dr. King, "and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may.

I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.

To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.

Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

It is Love that will save our world and our civilization.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The scariest moment is always just before you start.