Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

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.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

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

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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

People like to talk about war.

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

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.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

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.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

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

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.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

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.

Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

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

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

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

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.