philosophy

"There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition."

"Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don't hang you because you're a Baptist; they hang you ‘cause you’re black. They don’t attack me because …"

"It is now spring of the year, and you have all had the privilege of being taught the way of God; and now you may all go home and be faithful with your hands. Every faithful man will go forth and put u…"

"The immediate source of ecological crisis is capitalism... Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere... I believe the color of radicalism today is not red, but green."

"For me snowboarding is basically like being beaten up by a mountain."

"Now, there are electromagnetic changes that can be perceived with instruments. Certain electrical fields will make themselves known under these conditions. The fields have always existed, but they wil…"

"These are the gentry who are today wrapped up in the American flag, who shout their claim from the housetops that they are the only patriots, and who have their magnifying glasses in hand, scanning th…"

"Now in addition to being applauded as a five-time Grammy-Award-winning artist, Gloria now has the distinction of being titled a two-time New York Times best-selling author!"

"I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my…"

"That's why my girlfriend and I broke up: she wanted kids, and I … well, she wanted kids. I had no idea her philosophy was that flawed. She goes, "Wouldn't it be nice to have a kid? To have this fresh,…"

"It’s also time Australians stopped being apologetic about the values that have made our country as free, fair and prosperous as any on Earth."

"With such a CV I should not have even been elected as a municipal councilor. The people understood that an innocent was being shot at."

"I brought up lonesomeness again, and not being understood at all except by some women everybody hated."

"“the support which this theory receives from Brahmin scholars”.... “ is a very strange phenomenon. As Hindus they should ordinarily show a dislike for the Aryan theory with its expressed avowal of the…"

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. This term…"

"Charity and alms are recommended in every chapter of the Koran as being the most acceptable services, both to God and the Prophet."

"The ideal of non-attachment has been preached again and again in the course of the last 3000 years. It is found in Hinduism, the teachings of Buddha, the doctrine of Lao Tsu, in the philosophy of the …"

"If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does."

"It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible — the book — while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind."

"I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies."