Top 73 Quotes & Sayings by Gerry Spence - Page 2

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.

Everyone wants to argue. Everyone does. Everyone needs to.

In any nation in which people's rights have been subordinated to the rights of the few, in any totalitarian nation, the first institution to be dismantled is the jury. I was, I am, afraid.

Government [is] operated by deeply embedded, hopelessly entangled bureaus where nothing is accomplished because the function of the bureau is to intercept every living idea and smother it.

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.

Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured. Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.

Without argument the species would parish.

I love my life and I am so blessed.

The new and most powerful union of all will be a union of one one man, one woman, one worker with special skills, an inquiring mind, and an independent attitude, his creativity intact, his love of life blooming. The union of one will be peopled by one man or one woman who is alive. Such a person is always sought by the intelligent manager.

Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'

Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.