As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

From when I was born to when I was 21, I never left Toronto. That’s why I’m such a city cat.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

I think America has always been polarized.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.