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

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don’t recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

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

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

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Eventually, all companies are replaced.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

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

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Last year we said, ‚Things can’t go on like this‘, and they didn’t, they got worse.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

At times, I’ve referred to Christ’s miracles, and have said, ‚Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.‘

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.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

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

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

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.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

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

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

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.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!