The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.


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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN
I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN
Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN
On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN
The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN
One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN
I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN
I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN
I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN
Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN
Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN
There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN
The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN
I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY
In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS
If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS
Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS
Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN
There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER
You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER
Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER
When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER