She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.
God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites. ' And they learned.
Most people don't see that they have options beyond what society tells them to do. That's the biggest problem. They honestly believe that compliance is the shortcut to success.
There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough.
For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism - either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. The last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.
One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.