I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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?

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Law is mind without reason.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

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

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs.

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.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.