Tangled Maximus Quotes & Sayings

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope. — Alberto Manguel

If I say f*** the government, some will clap because they agree and some will clap just because you said f***. I've had countless audience members offer me free drugs but I also got free hernia surgery. — Doug Stanhope

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people. — Joyce Meyer

There is very little truth in the old refrain that one cannot legislate equality. Laws not only provide concrete benefits, they can even change the hearts of men - some men, anyhow - for good or evil. — Gilbert King

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love. — Mother Teresa

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children! — Tyler Perry

You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running, running, running and laughing. By laughing the two runners are proclaiming to the whole world, to audiences in all the movie theaters: "We're happy, we're glad to be in the world, we're in agreement with being!" It's a silly scene, a cliche, but it expresses a basic human attitude: serious laughter, laughter "beyond joking."
All churches, all underwear manufacturers, all generals, all political parties, are in agreement about that kind of laughter, and all of them rush to put the image of the two laughing runners on the billboards advertising their religion, their products, their ideology, their nation, their sex, their dishwashing powder. — Milan Kundera

80% of results come from 20% of effort/time — Vilfredo Pareto

Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death. — Peter DeFazio

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. — Aldo Leopold

I want to be fighting for a society accountable towards its citizens. — Binyavanga Wainaina

Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people. — Imtiaz Ali

If you have to love, then love greatly. — The Paper Doll

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. — Timothy Noah