Kenneth Quotes

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.

The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.

God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line.

But there is merit even in the mentally retarded legislator. He asks the questions that everyone is afraid to ask for fear of seeming simple.

I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics.

The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess Jesus into existence through their constant prophecies

Stories are equipment for living.

There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.

Success has less to do with what we can get ourselves to do and more to do with keeping ourselves from doing what we shouldn’t.

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on this planet.

If we manage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

Words are spiritual containers.

The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.

The whole force-field of Light rests on unity

Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.

You need three things in the theatre - the play, the actors and the audience, and each must give something.

This manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered.

An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination.