William Kunstler Quotes

#1. I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

Marianne Williamson

#2. Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Albert Camus

#3. Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country.

William Kunstler

#4. A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

William Kunstler

#5. In the Iowa senate, I helped pass the largest tax cut in state history - returning over four billion dollars in savings and putting more money back in the pockets of hard-working Iowa families.

Joni Ernst

#6. I must lead you through the valley of the shadow of death, for only a journey through shadows will allow us to fully comprehend the beauty of heavenly light.

Bryan Davis

#7. May 4th is a particularly memorable day in American history because 84 years to the day before May 4, 1970, there was another demonstration at the Haymarket Square in Chicago.

William Kunstler

#8. We have become the charnel house of the Western World.

William Kunstler

#9. Life moves on, the world moves on, the seeds we plant continue to grow.

Michelle Gable

#10. But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

William Kunstler

#11. At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.

William Kunstler

#12. Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.

William Kunstler

#13. The world isn't the place we are told to live in. It is another place entirely. We have both more choice, and less, than we are supposed to have.

Jesse Ball

#14. A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs!

William Kunstler

#15. Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money.

Kurt Vonnegut

#16. But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.

William Kunstler

#17. On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.

William Kunstler

#18. Our bodies must always be wherever that struggle and the moment we forget that, the moment we become lazy, the moment we sit back, then then the evil ones do their ordained tasks to us.

William Kunstler

#19. When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

William Kunstler

#20. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you've spent years establishing on the world's dominant social network?

Al Franken

#21. This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

Neil Armstrong

#22. ...No, the gentle will not have to kill the table-pounders, thus stultifying their own instincts, for the noisy, being bullies, will melt away at the first sight of the army of the soft-spoken.

Maxwell Struthers Burt

#23. I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Robert Smith

#24. The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

Mark Twight

#25. A dog is a liberal ... He wants to please everybody.

William Kunstler

#26. The others strapped themselves below - except for Coach Hedge, who insisted on clinging to the forward rail, yelling, YEAH! Bring it on, Lake!

Rick Riordan

#27. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Thomas Hobbes

#28. So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

William Kunstler

#29. This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

William Kunstler

#30. Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.

Robin Day