Quotes
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jean-Paul Sartré
“The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don’t want to change the world, you want to blow it up.”
-Jean-Paul Sartré, Dirty Hands
Miles Davis
“I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.”
-Miles Davis
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.”
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chuck Palahniuk
“You grow up to become living proof of your parents’ limitations.”
-Chuck Palahniuk Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
Philip K. Dick
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.”
-Philip K. Dick
Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Chuck Palahniuk
“Nothing of me is original. I am the
combined effort of everybody I’ve ever known.”
-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.”
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
Andy Warhol
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.”
-Andy Warhol
Philip K. Dick
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
-Philip K. Dick
Cormac McCarthy
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God, God never spoke.”
-Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Chuck Palahniuk
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
-Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
Mohandas Gandhi
“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
-Mohandas Gandhi
Isaac Asimov
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”
-Isaac Asimov
Al Capone
“You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.”
-Al Capone
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Chuck Palahniuk
“Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
-Chuck Palahniuk
Zadok Rabinwitz
“A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”
-Zadok Rabinwitz