Benjamin Quotes

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

The government is a tyrant living by theft, and therefore has no business to engage in any business.

We are here, on earth. Not one of us has any right to the earth.

An Anarchist is anyone who denies the necessity and legitimacy of government; the question of his methods of attacking it is foreign to the definition.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

You know, 1% of us is in the armed forces, protecting the other 99, and they're all volunteers.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

When you are public figure, you're an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

Believe things, rather than man.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Israel is run by war criminals...

I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the person who lived it or the people writing about it.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas.

What we must demand from the photographer is the ability to put such a caption beneath his picture as will rescue it from the ravages of modishness and confer upon it a revolutionary use value.

To perceive the aura of an object we look at means to invest it with the ability to look at us in return.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

I have had no discussions for [Brad] Marchand and I have no plans to trade him.

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

If you're black and you oppose a progressive agenda, and you're pro life, and you're pro family, then they do not even know what to call you. You end up on some watch list for extremists.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

We need to be willing to stand up and speak up for what we believe.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

You have yourself to blame.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

Why would I want to run for Congress and continue to get tainted with all the things that people get tainted with as they come along the system.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

You are what you think.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

We'll always be safe in Jesus Christ if we place our faith in the Lord.

God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.

If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.

What is important - what I consider success - is that we make a contribution to our world.

I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone.

Nothing needs a war. There is no problem that needs a war to bring it to a resolution.

There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.