People love conspiracy theories.

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

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

I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

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.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Let no such man be trusted.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

There are some loony people in this world!

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

We live in a bewildering world.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

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.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

I really don’t believe in magic.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

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

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.