Jennifer Lawrence > Jennifer's Quotes

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”
― William Gladstone

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“Since every country stands in numerous and various relations with the other countries of the world, and many, our own among the number, exercise actual authority over some of these, a knowledge of the established rules of international morality is essential to the duty of every nation, and therefore of every person in it who helps to make up the nation, and whose voice and feeling form a part of what is called public opinion. Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject. It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just and noble.”
― John Stewart Mill, Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews, 2/1/1867

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.”
― Edwin L. Cole

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire

“The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
― Aldous Huxley

“The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
― Emma Goldman

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?”
― Edward Abbey

“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― Sun tzu, The Art of War

“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.”
― Adlai Stevenson

“Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.”
― Freda Adler

“Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.”
― George J. Mitchell

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them. ”
― Lily Tomlin

“The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.”
― Paul Wellstone

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.”
― Sandra Day O'Connor

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
― George Carlin

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.”
― Dorothy Parker

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker