Doe Quotes
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.
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That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.
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Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.
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I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.
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Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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What does New York sound like? For me, the Charlie Parker at the Royal Roost recordings on the Savoy label are the total embodiment of the New York music experience.
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A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.
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Eighty years old! No eyes left, no ears, no teeth, no legs, no wind! And when all is said and done, how astonishingly well one does without them.
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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
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God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
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A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
