Top 975 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Leaders - Page 15

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

There is no happiness without patriotism.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.

We have to serve God or guarantee the safety of the Jews. And this can be done by them accepting the Palestinians, recognizing the Palestinians, accepting that fact that they should live with the Palestinians in one state, together. Unfortunately, the Jews are fighting or struggling against their own friend - the Arabs.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

In order to teach you, I must know you.

I served the Poland that existed.

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.

Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.

Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country, our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

A Homeland, A State, A Leader.

He who wants peace must prepare for war.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

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

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

Not creating delusions is enlightenment.

Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.

Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.

There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.

The Gospel is not about man searching for GOD but GOD reaching out to mankind!

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.

Yes, in general, I think there is too much club football on TV.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.