Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers – a world in which there is no damage, no breakage. This is a conceptual fantasy and makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

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.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

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.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

I live in a crazy time.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

During the 60’s, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

I’ve got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

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

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

There are some loony people in this world!

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn’t give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

The most important question in the world is, ‚Why is the child crying?‘

In the ’70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

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