Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

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

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

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

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

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

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

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

We’re so trendy we can’t even escape ourselves.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

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

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

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.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

We live in ugly times.

I’ve worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

You’d be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

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

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we’ve seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka… and welcome to my chocolate factory.

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

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.