The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

I’m not a conservative of any kind.

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.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

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

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

There are some loony people in this world!

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

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.

We live in a bewildering world.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

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

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

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

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.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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

Children are all foreigners.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

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.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

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.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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

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

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

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.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Obviously, I’m no fan of the radical left.