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

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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

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

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

You can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

London is a modern Babylon.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.