There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating… because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

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

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

History is more or less bunk.

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.