Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Spend your time with family and people you love. Don't wait for festivals be with them, each moment you're with them, that's a festival.

What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.

Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?

Our measure of hope is in direct proportion to our ability to conquer hopelessness.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

We should always be practical, realistic and optimistic.

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.