Richard M. Weaver Quotes

We need statutory spending limits written into law.

When we are headed the wrong way, the last thing we need is progress.

I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do that, so we need a political process.

... it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

If it’s change you need, relish the journey.

Instead of complaining about the current state of affairs, we need to offer better alternatives. [...] we need to stop cursing the darkness and start lighting some candles!

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

I need more time to develop as a player and as a person.

You shouldn't do things differently just because they're different. They need to be... better.

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban life - neighborhoods bulldozed and highways pushed through, and all that kind of stuff that really destroyed the kind of social underpinning and the kind of mom and pop stores and all the stuff that makes a community viable.

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

Gratitude needs to come back in a big way and I hope to encourage people to get involved.

The question is not whether a community lives or dies, the question is on what plane does it live? There are different modes of survival. But all are not equally honorable.

Over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot. And the main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

My fellow Americans, we can only build our bridge to the 21st century if we build it together, and if we're willing to walk arm-in-arm across that bridge together.

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

Our purpose is to end war and bring resources back to the life-sustaining needs of our community.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law. I have said this before and I say it again: any discrimination or violence against any community will not be tolerated. My position on this is very clear: Sab ka saath, sab ka vikas. We stand for every one of the 1.25 billion Indians regardless or caste or creed and we will work for the progress of every one of them.

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.