Cecil Rhodes Quotes
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Quotes to Explore
-
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.
-
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
-
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
-
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
-
My mother taught me to read.
-
I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.
-
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
-
The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.
-
You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
-
I tend to read non-fiction.
-
I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.
-
I often don't read reviews.
-
I don't look at the tabloids. I don't read the tabloids.
-
The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.
-
'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
-
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
-
I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
-
Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
-
If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. Humanity goes. Money making becomes so important that they must work by night as well as by day. Health goes. And so competitive do they become that they will not share their work with others though they have more themselves. What then remains of a human being who has lost sight, sound, and sense of proportion? Only a cripple in a cave.
-
Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.
-
Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.
-
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.
-
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
-
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
