L.A. Paul Quotes

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Old friends are memories personified.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

You don't have a right to a house, you don't have a right to a job, you don't have a right to medical care.

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

I know some very political people who rap, and they say very political things and they'll never get a deal.

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Appetite has really become an artificial and abnormal thing, having taken the place of true hunger, which alone is natural. The one is a sign of bondage but the other, of freedom.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

The internet is not for sissies.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.

My perfect weekend... anything to do with nature.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

My position is this. If we can't protect sanctuaries, if we can't save the whales, the sharks, the fish, our oceans will die.

They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD.

I think you have to satisfy yourself first and foremost.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

I always say, "If you see something is wrong in your neighborhood, go ahead and change it. Don't wait for somebody else to do it." This is pretty much what I do.

I don't need to play Beatport Top 10 to get the crowd going

The problem is we don't understand the problem.

Economics is not a morality play.

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!

To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Think globally, act locally.