Edmund Burke Quotes

The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

Posterity will give a man a fair hearing; his own times will not do so if he is attacking vested interests.

Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.

Basketball to me is more than a passion or a paycheck - it is the tool I use to try to have an impact in the world.

I want my kids, my grandkids to have a great life.

I can only pass on what is inside of me, whether it is love or money or the passion for dribbling or tricks with the ball.

I know I will leave my work unfinished. I just hope I planted enough seeds in my children and grandchildren that they will continue.

My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and was very thoughtful and passionate about education and young women.

The cool thing about this business is taking the knowledge you've gained that people have passed onto you and then you pass it along to the next generation.

We can't throw the worst part of racism into the dustbin of history.

There've been times I felt like, 'I don't know if I want to do this.' That maybe I should go back to school and become a special-education teacher. But I love entertaining.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

People say that being a vegan creates a social problem in that others may react negatively. But isnt that the case if you take a principled position on any issue, whether its racism, sexism, heterosexism, violence as a general matter—or speciesism? The key is to educate others about *why* you take the position.

No generation can escape history.

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.

I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any observation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Posterity is always just.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.