Muhammad Ali Quotes

We don't make the rules. We just play by them.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

This is not what I would have chosen. But I have a heart to be obedient.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Very well; whatever you say is necessary must be done.

I'm a good authoritarian figure; I don't know why. 'Can you be a cop?' Sure. 'Can you be a Marine?' Absolutely. Well, at least in a movie.

You never want to be on the receiving end of Donald Trump being disappointed in you.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

To understand why, submit and apply.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.