Benjamin Quotes

Well, it takes all kinds to make a mess.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

Practically everything from hairstyles to lifestyles is endorsed as some sort of drug to be taken Now for Instant Relief.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.

Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Plato's dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.

Jowett, in his day, did probably more than any other single man to let some fresh air into the exhausted atmosphere of the [Oxford] common rooms, and to widen the intellectual horizons of the place.

All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

The Romans used to say that courage is not the only virtue, but it's the only one that makes the other virtues possible.

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended.

To subdivide this land into two unstable, insecure nations, to try to defend what is indefensible, is to invite disaster. Carving Judea and Samaria out of Israel means carving up Israel.

The greatest threat facing humanity is a radical Islamist regime meeting up with nuclear weapons.

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs of the territories.

I know Donald Trump. I know him very well. And I think his attitude, his support for Israel is clear.

Israel is very much endangering.

But ... the days that the Jewish people remain passive in the face of genocidal enemies — those days are over.

Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Commanded love of all men indiscriminately is an obliteration of distinction between love and hate, and therefore is not love at all.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.

Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.