Dexter Scott King famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?
-- Dexter Scott King

#Father #Vanity #Said
The government paid the family of Richard Nixon $18 million for papers, tape recordings and other materials seized after Watergate.
-- Dexter Scott King

#Government #Tape #Paper
What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you dont protect it, you lose it.
-- Dexter Scott King

#Father #Law #Missing
People will judge you according to your own convictions.
-- Dexter Scott King

#People #Judging #Conviction
I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.
-- Dexter Scott King

#Kids #Littles
Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
-- Dexter Scott King

#Waste
On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now.
-- Dexter Scott King

#Passion #Past #Vegetables
Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If youâ€™re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.
-- Dexter Scott King

#Levels #Body #Violence

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.
Mundus vult decipi'â€”the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?
Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.
An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not, a craftsman, a bag of tricks, a vanity bag, a cool observer of mankind, a child and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents...
Chess is a matter of vanity.
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.
I've rarely said the word "Lord," unless it's followed by "of the Rings.
The problem with a politicianâ€™s quote on Facebook is you donâ€™t know whether or not they really said it.

Dexter Scott King famous quotes

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