If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

Whatever comes your way begets the gift of every circumstance.

Your attitude is contagious.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

I believe that Israel is one of our most important friends in the world.

Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.