Quotes: Meaning

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

A lot of the lyrical ideas do have a lot of meaning in a way, although it is somewhat abstracted.

The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who’s unemployed in the world, you feel there’s no meaning and there’s a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.