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.

Every time the Fed implements ‚quantitative easing,‘ a.k.a. printing more money, two things go up: taxes and inflation. When taxes and inflation go up, more jobs are lost.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

There is precious little in civilization to appeal to a Yeti.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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

From 1945 to 1974, the Western world – including America – was more socialistic than capitalistic, more pro-labor than pro-business.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

Society is at odds with itself.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

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

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

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

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we’ve got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

The mainstream is always under attack.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

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

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

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.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

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

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.