Doe Quotes - Page 359

No man can afford to express, through words or acts, that which is not in harmony with his own beliefs, and if he does so, he must pay by the loss of his ability to influence others.

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

Obama has done things like Hitler did. Let me be very careful here. The National Socialists rounded people up and held them without trial, signed legislation that gave torture impunity, and spied on their citizens, just as Obama has. It isn't a question of what has been done that Hitler did. It's what does every dictator do, on the left or the right, that is being done here and now.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

You don't have to be a Christian to recognize that materialism does not match reality. Materialism is not true to universal human experience - what we all know about ourselves.

To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.

I know what the world is like. Nobody does anything unless there's something in it for themselves. But there are some people who do more than they have to for what they get in return, and those people are kind right to the heart.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

A lie does not become truth just because ten people are telling it.

When it comes to the declared death of Bin Laden, Egypt is against all kinds of violence. The Egyptian government does not have a comment.

If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it.

I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which is what Anglican liturgy does, just seems to me such a very complete and compelling thing.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

Fortunately age does not affect literature. After a man is dead, he may continue in the business and often rank higher than his living competitors.

People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?

The Vedic literatures reveal that prasadam conveys spiritual realization, just as chanting does, but in a less obvious or conspicuous way. You make spiritual advancement just by eating it.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

Being Ali's doctor is somewhat like being gynacologist to the Queen of England. One does not have to do much to receive good press.

[The producer told me:] "We can try one more record, and we'll see how that one does." Those records never did anything. My music never got mentioned. My color got mentioned.

I don't care what anyone does, as long as they go through the copyright office.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does.