M. Clarke Quotes
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.
I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.
Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'
Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.
You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.
When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.
There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.'
I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!
Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.
The impact of racism has changed our look at ourselves because basically racism was meant to make us look unfaithfully at ourselves, and to not treasure our institutions.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.
The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.
In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.
As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
The destiny of the world is determined less by the battles that are lost and won than by the stories it loves and believes in.
Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.
You need to make mistakes in rehearsal because that's how you find out what works and what doesn't.
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.
