As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

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 most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

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

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

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

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

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.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

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.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

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

We live in a bewildering world.

America is just downright mean.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The ‚take control of things‘ mode, the ‚be careful, watch out‘ mode, the ‚speed‘ mode – the ‚Red Bull‘ mode, actually. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s all part of what we are.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

People do not make wars; governments do.

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

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.