If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

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.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

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

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.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to 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.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The United States fully accepts the profound truth that our own progress, prosperity, and peace are interlocked with the progress, prosperity, and peace of all humanity.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television… I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

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

We live in ugly times.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

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.

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

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

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.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

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.