A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

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

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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

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.

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.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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.

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.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

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

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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

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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

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.

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

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

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.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

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

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

Children are all foreigners.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

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

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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