A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

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.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

You can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

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

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

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

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I live in a crazy time.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

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

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

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

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

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.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?