Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

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.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

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

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

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

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

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.

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

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

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

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

The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken. More: You have ceded them power.

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

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

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

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.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

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

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

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

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.