Benjamin Quotes

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

The Infinite Universal Power is more than just a narrow-minded gatekeeper to a spiritual County Club.

Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

We are using missile defense to protect our civilians, and they're using their civilians to protect their missiles.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

I've been right more than I've been wrong.

The idea of imposing peace from the outside doesn't work.

I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.

In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good--a mere stranger will do no harm.

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."

I'm about to turn 48, and I think that the closer I get to 50, the more I might be interested in fatherhood. But honestly, I'm not grown up yet myself.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

People would say, "You know, Rich, it's nature. Birds of a feather flock together." I have to point out to them that, no, that's not the case.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home.

A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.

Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

I dont make it a practice to respond to reports in the social media but occasionally it is necessary.

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.

Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized.

Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.

I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.

A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.

I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.

As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.

There are in life real evils enough, and it is folly to afflict ourselves with imaginary ones; it is time enough when the real ones arrive.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.