I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
Sigmund Freud

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Samuel Goldwyn

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
Samuel Goldwyn

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.
Katharine Hepburn

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
Karl Marx

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
Voltaire

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Marcus Garvey

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner

I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.
Rita Rudner

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
Rita Rudner

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas A. Edison

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli