Top 100 Malcolm Quotes
#1. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.
Ellen Malcolm
#3. When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#4. I regard myself as a religious ... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#5. I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#6. The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#8. The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Malcolm X
#9. Dicing with death is one man's cup of tea, but another man's poison. I just didn't fear anything.
Stephen Richards
#11. Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Malcolm X
#12. Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Malcolm Fraser
#13. Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
Malcolm Bradbury
#16. Accepting blame when it's not really due sometimes makes the point better.
Malcolm Forbes
#17. The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world.
Malcolm X
#18. New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.
Mort Sahl
#19. There is nothing in our book, the Qur'an, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone lays a hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
#20. The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.
Malcolm Forbes
#21. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.
Malcolm X
#22. Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
Malcolm Wallop
#23. Because the people and countries who are wealthy enough to pay for things like really small classes have a hard time understanding that the things their wealth can buy might not always make them better off.
Malcolm Gladwell
#24. They have a national policy where they have no ability grouping until the age of ten. Denmark waits to make selection decisions until maturity differences by age have evened out.
Malcolm Gladwell
#25. Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness,
Janet Malcolm
#26. The only difference between [America] and South Africa, South Africa preaches separation and practices separation, America preaches integration and practices segregation. This is the only difference, they don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa practices and preaches the same thing.
Malcolm X
#27. I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
#28. Although I had committed just about every sort of assault imaginable on people and even the odd one or two against the police, I still had and still do have respect for the old school policeman.
Stephen Richards
#29. Obviously it's hard for anyone to imagine, but these dance halls were powder kegs just waiting to erupt. Names were made and reputations were enhanced or blown in a flash!
Stephen Richards
#31. There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.
Jane Kaczmarek
#32. Our objective is complete freedom, justice and equality by any means necessary.
Malcolm X
#33. I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#36. Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
Malcolm X
#37. On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.
Malcolm Bradbury
#38. I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
Malcolm Boyd
#39. Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality ...
Malcolm X
#40. If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.
Malcolm Forbes
#41. What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
Malcolm Lowry
#42. Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did.
Malcolm X
#43. When you read,' the man whispered, 'you discover who you really are. You find traces of yourself, little pieces you didn't know were there.
Malcolm McNeill
#44. You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.
Malcolm Hulke
#45. But MacCurdy's idea about near and remote misses suggests something quite different - that courage is in some sense acquired.
Malcolm Gladwell
#46. We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Malcolm Fraser
#47. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.
Malcolm Gladwell
#48. I'm for truth, no matter who tells it..
Malcolm X
#49. The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of the mystery - and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.
Janet Malcolm
#50. Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
Malcolm Forbes
#51. In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#52. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.
Malcolm Lowry
#53. SM is an abbreviation of both stock market and sadomasochism
and there are those who think they are one and the same.
Malcolm Forbes
#54. To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
Malcolm Forbes
#55. All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.
Janet Malcolm
#56. It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
Malcolm Turnbull
#57. The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.
Malcolm X
#58. If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes.
Malcolm Gladwell
#59. I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen.
Tom Brady
#60. If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
Malcolm Turnbull
#61. The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
Malcolm Gladwell
#62. Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).
Malcolm Forbes
#63. Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#64. A woman should occasionally be babied enough to show her the man had affection, but beyond that she should be treated firmly. These tough women said that it worked with them.
All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength.
Malcolm X
#65. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.
Malcolm Forbes
#66. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
Malcolm X
#67. When you have an organization that's neither political nor religious and doesn't take part in the civil rights struggle, what can it call itself? It's in a vacuum.
Malcolm X
#68. You can't fool the mirror-what you see is what you are.
Malcolm Forbes
#69. Away from or classed differently from a main or related body 2: a statistical observation that is markedly different in value from the others of the sample 1.
Malcolm Gladwell
#70. Under the pitiful misapprehension that it would make them "better," these Hill Negroes were breaking their backs trying to imitate white people.
Malcolm X
#71. Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.
Michael Crichton
#72. If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151)
Malcolm Gladwell
#73. I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.
George Brandis
#74. I've noticed your hostility towards him ... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
Malcolm Bradbury
#75. Any time you demonstrate against segregation and a man has the audacity to put a police dog on you, kill that dog, kill him, I'm telling you, kill that dog. I say it if they put me in jail tomorrow, kill that dog. Then you'll put a stop to it.
Malcolm X
#76. SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the trees died of fear but they are not in agreement as to what caused the fright.
Malcolm Lowry
#78. But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
Malcolm Turnbull
#79. Barbarianism and finesse cannot be rolled into one, Pricey defeats this theory. The barbarianism born from his fight to make it in life, his finesse brought about by his sensitivity that was deprived of him when he was a child.
Stephen Richards
#80. How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
Malcolm Lowry
#81. While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.
Malcolm Turnbull
#82. Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word ... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!
Malcolm Muggeridge
#83. In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
Malcolm Turnbull
#84. Broken Windows theory and the Power of Context are one and the same. They are both based on the premise that an epidemic can be reversed, can be tipped, by tinkering with the smallest details of the immediate environment. This
Malcolm Gladwell
#85. Sesame Street succeeded because it learned how to make television sticky.
Malcolm Gladwell
#86. Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
Malcolm Campbell
#87. Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves.
Malcolm X
#88. Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.
Malcolm Gladwell
#89. It's challenging, it's not hopeless. You have to come up with something. You have to figure out a way to help them, because people must have hope to live.
Malcolm Gladwell
#90. In the past generation, the American educational system has decided not to seek the very best teachers, give them lots of kids to teach, and pay them more - which would help children the most. It has decided to hire every teacher it can get its hands on and pay them less.
Malcolm Gladwell
#91. The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.
Malcolm Campbell
#92. Foreign diplomats could have modeled their conduct on the way the Negro postmen, Pullman porters, and dining car waiters of Roxbury [Massachusetts] acted, striding around as if they were wearing top hats and cutaways.
Malcolm X
#93. Occasionally indulging in a do-nothing day is more than worth the price.
Malcolm Forbes
#94. You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
Malcolm X
#95. Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions ... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
Malcolm Gladwell
#96. The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
Malcolm Wallop
#97. The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.
Malcolm Forbes
#98. The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.
Malcolm Gladwell
#99. We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
Malcolm Gladwell
#100. Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.
Malcolm McLaren
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