All Quotes
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“There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis . If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles. Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley , as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 386; also partly quoted in The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p. 19”
“It was a load of rubbish. It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck . Later comments on meeting Elvis , as quoted in The Beatles: The Biography (2005) by Bob Spitz, p. 583.”
“One cave she wolf go too farther, and I wolf leaf her”
“Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now ; I don't know which will go first”
“I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti”
“Very rich. Asked how he felt about a Beatles' Shea Stadium concert not selling out; Pop Chronicles : Show 38”
“I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together I Am the Walrus ,”
“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles”
“Our society is run by insane people”
“The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition. The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns. But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief. Journal entry (16 May 1681), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 200”
“Wit and good nature meeting in a fair young lady as they do in you make the best resemblance of an angel that we know; and he that is blessed with the conversation and friendship of a person so extraordinary enjoys all that remains of paradise in this world. Letter to Mary Clarke (7 May 1682), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 221”
“But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression . A Letter Concerning Toleration”
“The good King of France desires only that you would take his word and let him be quiet till he has got the West Indies into his hands and his grandson well established in Spain, and then you may be sure you shall be as safe as he will let you be in your religion, property and trade, to all which who can be such an infidel as not to believe him a great friend? Letter to Peter King (5 April 1701), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 452”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world , and the seed”
“Hand Book : Caution and Counsels”
“Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.”
“Discourse of Port de Set with P. & Mr. [blank] at Petit Paris, & the teaching biding to cheat the Hugenots: Nulla fides servanda cum Hereticis, nisi satis validi sunt ad se defendendos [faith need not be kept with heretics]. Journal entry (25 January 1676), quoted in John Lough (ed.), Locke's Travels in France 1675”
“Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas'”
“For wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer Justice, it is still violence and injury, however colour'd with the Name, Pretences, or Forms of Law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, War is made upon the Sufferers, who having no appeal on Earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such Cases, an appeal to Heaven. Two Treatises of Government. The Second Treatise. Chapter 3: The State of War, §20 p. 281 books.google”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”
“Awake, arise or be forever fallen!”
“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
“To know that which before us lies in daily life is the prime wisdom.”
“Free will is the foundation of human dignity.”
“Hail, holy light, offspring of heaven firstborn!”
“Journalism is the first draft of history.”