All Quotes

"Truth only burns brighter in the flame of persecution."

"Greatest truth is the unmasking of lies."

"To mollycoddle malice is not religion, to pamper prejudice is not piety."

"Inheriting a primitive mindset, from family, society, country or culture, is worse than inheriting a disease."

"No one on earth should suffer to satisfy someone's puritanical beliefs."

"No one else anywhere will have to suffer, it ends with us - the prejudice, the bigotry, the stupidity, the superstition, the fanaticism, all masquerading as sanity - it ends with us."

"You know, what terms like woke, feminist, anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-colonialist, anti-monarchist, anti-nationalist, pro-choice, really mean! They imply a willful involvement to free ourselves from primitive practices, as opposed to wishful thinking of tradition forcing the living to adapt to the dead."

"[first lines] I know what you're thinkin'... What the heck do I need a 5-spindle for... when I barely sell enough milkshakes to justify my single-spindle. Right? Wrong. Are you familiar with the notion of the chicken or the egg? Mr. Griffith, I mentioned... that there'd be costs. Well, I think it applies here. Do you not need the multimixer because, well heck, you're not selling enough milkshakes. Or are you not selling enough milkshakes because you don't have a multimixer? I firmly believe it's the latter. Because your customer comes in here and he knows if he orders a shake from your establishment... that well, he's in for a terrific wait. He's done it before and he thinks to himself, well, by golly, I'm not gonna make that mistake again. But if ya had the Prince Castle, 5-spindle, multimixer... with patented direct-drive electric motor we'd greatly increase your ability to produce... delicious, frosty milkshakes, FAST. Mark my words. Dollars to donuts, you'll be sellin' more of those sons-of-bitches... than you can shake a stick at. You increase the supply, and the demand will follow... Increase supply, demand follows. Chicken, egg. Do you follow my logic? I know you do because you're a bright, forward thinking guy who... knows a good idea when he hears one. So... What do you say?"

"Now, I know what you're thinkin'. How the heck does a 52-year-old, over-the-hill milkshake-machine salesman... build a fast-food empire with 16,000 restaurants, in 50 states, in 5 foreign countries... with an annual revenue of in the neighborhood of $700,000,000.00... One word... PERSISTENCE. Nothing in this world can take the place of good old persistence. Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius won't. Unrecognized genius is practically a cliche. Education won't. Why the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful. ... It's these core principles... that enabled me to rise to the top of a heap... at a point in life when most men would be thinking about retirement. Why, we appear to have that in common, governer Reagan."

"I'm looking for a few good men... and women. Who aren't afraid of hard work. Aren't afraid to roll up their sleeves. I'm looking for scrappers, hustlers, guys that are willing to roll up their sleeves. They're livin' on drive, they got a little fire in their belly. I stand right here before you today, I'm gonna offer you something as precious as gold. And you know what that is? Anybody? Anybody? Opportunity. It's opportunity. Opportunity. Opportunity to advance, to move forward, to move up, to advance... To succeed. To win. To step up. The sky's the limit. The sky is the limit. Grab the brass ring. To give yourself a shot at the American dream. Put your arms around the American dream. Opportunity. 'Cause I'll tell ya somethin'... At McDonald's? It's like this great nation of ours... Some of that elbow grease. I guarantee ya, if you got the guts... the gumption, the desire... I guarantee ya you can succeed. There's gold to be had. At the end of... those Golden Arches... Golden Arches. Golden Arches. Now who's with me? Who wants to jump on that ladder to success? Be part of the McDonald's "mishpokhe". Now who's with me? Come on, lemme see some hands."

"A couple of Illinois boys. Made good. Only in America. Only in America. Only in America!"

"McDonald's... is... family. Isn't that great? You know what I see when I see that? Family. We're one big family. Aren't we? We have mouths to feed. That's a family."

"If you've got time to lean, then you've got time to clean."

"[to Ethel during dinner] I want a divorce."

"[during the end credits] Nobody had eight multi-mixers in one business. So I went out there. And I was amazed! They were serving hamburgers for fifteen cents. French fries for ten cents and milkshakes for twenty cents. And basically that was the menu, and I said, that's for me. Now I have ultimatums, you know. Except that I'd like to be able to say that. I bought the agreement back from them for two million, seven hundred thousand dollars. I got the name, the golden arches, basically it was a matter of me working longer and harder than anybody else. I'll take every resource that I have and I'll put it in and I'll go for broke if I believe in it. The only thing I could do besides play the piano, was to talk. What happened to my talk? It's not dog eat dog out there in that competitive world, it's more like rat eat rat."

"Mac McDonald: Dick. We will never beat him. We will never be rid of him."

"The first global goal is to fire the fascists."

"God is not a being, God is a behavior."

"The black, the white, the brown, the red, the yellow, the hetero, the homo, the trans, the poor, the rich, the literate, the illiterate, the weak, the strong – all are my sisters and brothers. My life is their life. And till the last breath in my body, I shall be serving you all with all the power in my veins. And beyond death, my ideas shall be serving you for eternity."

"Liberty is my religion and Humans are my God."

"Black lives matter is not a black people's movement - metoo is not a women's movement - pride is not a gay people's movement - it's all humanity's movement - a movement for being accepted as humans by the humans."

"Justice doesn't mean absence of injustice, it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice."

"Strength used for oppression is violence, strength used for defending the weak is justice."

"I looked into the eyes of racism, all I found was insecurity."

"Whoever controls the narrative, controls the people."

"The human brain has not evolved to perceive reality, it has evolved to create an illusion of reality. That's why an exciting lie gains more attention than a boring truth."

"Festivals are occasions to empower ourselves in the course of humanity - they are the occasions to rekindle the promise of humanity in our heart - the promise that we keep forgetting in the cacophony of manmade labels."

"Christmas isn’t about the decorations, It’s about compassion. Hanukkah isn’t about the sufganiyot, It’s about amalgamation. Ramadan isn’t about the feast, It’s about affection. Diwali isn't about the lights, It's about ascension."

"A true healer is not the one with magical powers, but the one who does everything in their power to help those in need."

"If we don't learn to break bread with each other, there'll come a day when none of us will have any bread to break."

"Acceptance is simply love in practice. When you love, you accept, when you lack love, you judge."

"Adjusting to inhumanity is an inhumanity itself."

"If an act of inhumanity goes unchallenged in your presence, then you have no right to call yourself human."

"By belittling others we only show how little and shallow we are."

"The greatest threat to the world is not any specific faith, for faith is nature's anti-dote to misery. The greatest threat to the world is intolerance, regardless of its religious, non-religious, political or intellectual background."

"My world, my responsibility."

"The beauty that we find in the world is a reflection of the beauty inside of us."

"Black doesn't mean dangerous, white doesn't mean trash, brown doesn't mean smuggler, muslim doesn't mean terrorist, woman doesn't mean weak, and lgbt doesn't mean sick. These are the fundamentals that we must realize if we are to build a just and humane society."

"Spare the biases, spoil the society."

"A world without 9/11 and January 6 begins with a heart without hate."

"To call genocide as self-defense, may be textbook diplomacy. Killing innocents to keep control, is an act of terrorist hypocrisy."

"Society must shed its dead traditions, like one sheds dead skin."

"Stagnated water breeds disease, when in motion it breathes life. Stagnated mind breeds segregation, when in motion it breaks divide."

"Space is not the final frontier, humanity is, the full manifestation of humanity, above the influence of biases, for it is much easier to conquer outer space than inner space."

"Worse than aborting is birthing in instability."

"Until the state or the church takes full responsibility for a newborn, no bill or bible is qualified to even offer suggestions on a woman's right to abortion."

"Acts of terror committed by a government is still terrorism."

"Occupation has no place in a civilized society."

"A world that is safe for mothers is safe for all."

"We cannot fit a multi-gender world into a two-gender system of sports. Some may feel super woke to say that transgender women athletes belong in female sports, but let me tell you as a biologist, in terms of muscle mass, transgender women have similar advantages over females as male athletes do, even with testosterone suppression therapy, therefore, it is not enough to simply acknowledge transgender as a distinct gender, we must also make necessary alterations to our preexisting societal fields, such as setting up transgender category in sports, where performance is predicated on physiological attributes, so that in an attempt to vest upon the transgender population their long-overdue fundamental rights, we do not start treating other genders unfairly without even being aware of it. Remember, replacing one wrong with another is not rightness. Our purpose is to preserve the rights of everyone, not to change the shape of the violation of those rights."