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.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

With all singers, insecurity is your best security. That’s why we’re such loud people and why we walk all funny. You think, ‚Are people interested?‘ But I think our band has something and they know we don’t just put albums out. We do think about it.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

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.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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

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.

Me not finishing school – in my head, I still have this insecurity when I’m talking to someone educated.

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

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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.

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

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.