Liam > Liam's Quotes

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his...”
― Malcolm X

“Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.”
― Coleman Young

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”
― Abbie Hoffman

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life.”
― Art Blakey

“Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.”
― Langston Hughes

“You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.”
― Joe Perry

“They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...”
― Brendan Behan

“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
― Brendan Behan

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

“Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.”
― Martin Luther

“The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...”
― Keith Richards

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Security without liberty is called prison.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
― John F. Kennedy

“The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.”
― John F. Kennedy

“At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.”
― Federico García Lorca

“Fuck it; put it in a bucket, and take it to the stage!”
― George Clinton

“Free your mind... and your ass will follow.”
― George Clinton

“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Non, je ne regrette rien”
― Edith Piaf

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“Wretched are they who defend freedom- they defend it at the cost of their own freedom!”
― Wali al-Din

“We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems

“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself.

[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson