Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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

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’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Society is at odds with itself.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

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.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

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.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

Politics have no relation to morals.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

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

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

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

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

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

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.