If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

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

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it’s going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, ‚Wow, that movie‘ – or that show or whatever – ‚turned out really well.‘

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don’t think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There’s TV. There’s a lot of things.

You can’t get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

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

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.

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

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

Everybody is entertained to death.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

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

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

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

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.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.