One country, one constitution, one destiny.

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

If a businessman makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences. If a bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.