For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus ChristDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. MenckenThe environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
Samuel JohnsonIn a certain sense the Good is comfortless.
Franz KafkaSociety has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
George OrwellOrdinary morality is innate in my view.
Christopher HitchensAll the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel KantKings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund BurkeThe community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
William JamesThe precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry FordWhen there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert HooverLaw and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
Friedrich NietzscheThe more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Noam ChomskyScientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert OppenheimerIt’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.
Jordan PetersonVirtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
PlatoHow accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWar is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
George OrwellI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaAn asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard ShawJustice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor RooseveltYes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
Oscar WildeIf you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston ChurchillTo educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Theodore RooseveltFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinBabylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.
Bob MarleyAlthough the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Thomas SowellA people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWe all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn’t come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn’t resurging. It didn’t work out.
Colin PowellHe who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
ConfuciusLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas JeffersonIn law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel KantIf people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.
John KennedyGovernment’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
Ronald ReaganWe’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy GrahamThe Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.
Barack ObamaIn the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Noam ChomskyWe have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
Jeff BezosDemocracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Bertrand RussellIn 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.
Kanye WestHe is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
VoltaireIt is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
AristotleI think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Ruth Bader GinsburgFor 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.
Nelson MandelaWhat do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending – that’s the whole point! Seriously.
Barack ObamaLaws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
George WashingtonMaybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.
David ByrneLawless are they that make their wills their law.
William ShakespeareThe White House is the finest prison in the world.
Harry S. TrumanAnger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.
Terry PratchettSince I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
Haruki MurakamiEthics and power are separate.
Robert GreeneThe strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Blaise PascalMan’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Blaise PascalLife cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Samuel JohnsonExperience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas JeffersonNever pray for justice, because you might get some.
Margaret Atwood