I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.
In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.
Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do.
Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.
Blow your brains out and do it right, make sure it's on prime time and on Saturday night.
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.
I've never gotten bitter about where I was at in my career. I've always earned enough money to put my kids through school and eat and all that, so I was never one of those guys who said, "Why am I not in this other position? Why am I not that other guy? Why am I me?"
Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.
If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.