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.
Thomas SowellMen don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Jerry SeinfeldI 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonFor my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham LincolnWar is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillWhat consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.
Jeff BezosThe ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.
Marilyn MonroeAll the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
Desmond TutuI just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
George W. BushIn the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIf Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
Steven WrightAmericans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. BushPeace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert HooverThe moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
Joe BidenThe mainstream is always under attack.
Bill GatesWhere do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamOn 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.
H. L. MenckenDemocracy 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.
AristotleThere can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson MandelaIn too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.
Anthony BourdainWhere ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai LamaFor to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson MandelaCivilization is the making of civil persons.
John RuskinThe true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund BurkeThat sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
Charles DickensGovernments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
Noam ChomskyTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensWe must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.
Pope FrancisLong before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. LewisI simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne FrankMany people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.
Joyce MeyerNobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
Bill GatesPeace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch SpinozaEverything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will RogersPeace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
BuddhaOn all the peaks lies peace.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Dan QuayleThe upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Queen Elizabeth IIGovernments don’t control people like they used to.
Noam ChomskyWe cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy CarterI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauI think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
Bill GatesI don’t feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don’t have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you’ve got the money to be able to afford it, then it’s really good to buy something from me, but don’t buy too much.
Vivienne WestwoodScience 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.
Helen KellerPeace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert EinsteinPeople do not make wars; governments do.
Ronald ReaganClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark TwainIndeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.
Colin PowellThe lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon MuskThe man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand RussellA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham MaslowTimid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
Thomas JeffersonSo long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
Elbert HubbardThe very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. KennedyIf every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.
Thich Nhat HanhPeople have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Vivienne WestwoodFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinThe end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’m well past the age where I’m acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You’re not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you’re not going to get played on radio and you’re not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.
David BowieSometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.
Joyce Meyer