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

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

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

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 have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Like Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

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

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

When I take my kid to school, all the parents stop and stare.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

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.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

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.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

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.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

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

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

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

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

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.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

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

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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.

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

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

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

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.