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

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Money ain’t everything.

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

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

We’ve come a long way from the days where there was state-enforced segregation. But we still have a way to go.

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

More law, less justice.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

People do not make wars; governments do.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Man can never be a woman’s equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

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

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Living on $6 a day means you have a refrigerator, a TV, a cell phone, your children can go to school. That’s not possible on $1 a day.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

It is right to give every man his due.

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.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

We live in ugly times.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.