I think people need something to believe in, because they don’t want to have control over their own lives. They’d rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it’s easier for them to blame it on that.

Despotism, which we regard with abhorrence, is rather too plausible in decaying feudal, agrarian, pastoral societies. That’s why we must expect to have many a defeat before we’ll have an ultimate victory in this contest with Communism.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it’s not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything

I don’t consider myself a spokesman—I have always thought it would be rather presumptuous

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.

I’d rather die enormous than live dormant.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

He also emphasizes the importance of staying true to yourself and following your own path, rather than trying to fit in with the crowd.

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

I’d rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

We can ill afford to have activities conducted as “non-profit,” that is, as activities that devour capital rather than form it, if they can be organized as activities that form capital, as activities that make a profit.

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the manual worker, is the key to economic growth and economic performance in today’s society.

I’d rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, ‘What’s the problem? You’re so not sexual.

Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Most people would rather die than think; many do.

I’d rather be a pessimist because then I can only be pleasantly surprised.

I’d rather be judged by twelve than carried by six