Robert M Quotes

Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

The will of the people shall be the law of the land

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Oh how sweet to work for God all day, and then lie down at night beneath His smile.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely.

I have a Disability yes that's true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly different path than you.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

Know me for my abilities, not my disability.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all opposition to war as unpatriotic and cowardly.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

When everyone else says you can't, determination says,'YES YOU CAN.'

A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

Tears are the body's raindrops of emotion.

Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.