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

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

War is a contagion.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

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

War settles nothing.

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

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

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.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

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

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

The intensity of the football and how the people live football in Liverpool – it is not a usual.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

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

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Colombia has been the leading western recipient of U.S. arms and training as violence has grown through the ’90s.

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.

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.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.