In politics as in religion it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
The largest party in America by the way is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.
If there's no money in poetry neither is there poetry in money.
Everyone has that friend who's every day like 'I hate my nose I hate my nose I hate my nose.' You either need to come to peace with it and be like alright I hate it but it's part of me - or change it. So I'm not against plastic surgery I'm against plastic surgery when it doesn't really need to be done.
Peace does not include a vendetta there will be neither winners nor losers.
There are no absolute rules of conduct either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it by resistance to evil buy it by compromise with evil.
You either get tired fighting for peace or you die.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress with its trials and its errors its successes and its setbacks can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom top or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations that a young person who either marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of.