"Collective will supplants individual whim"

-- Samuel P. Huntington

#Individual Quotes #Whim Quotes #Collectives Quotes

“I forget what the official name of it was, but they did an all-day of roots music - every kind of music you can imagine from around the country - New Orleans Jazz to Indian flute players, R&B, you name it. I met and became good friends with (blues guitar player) Joe Louis Walker. He was on the show.”
“I do not believe that just because you're opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don't? Because you don't want any tax money to go there. That's not pro-life. That's pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.”
“So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different”
“Suppose several boys are moving along a particular road and one boy falls into a drain, his dress and his body, become dirty. Other people, passers-by, will laugh at him, but when the boy's father sees his boy in that condition, what is he to do? Will he laugh at his own son? No! What will he do?”
“Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.”
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.”
“Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.”
“Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.”

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