Everybody is entertained to death.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

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

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

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

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Electronic books are junk.

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

Computers double their performance every month.

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

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

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.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I sell escapism.

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

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

Stand-up is my baby.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I play a nobody in Japan.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.