If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

I live in a crazy time.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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 well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

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.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

I can do whatever I want.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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.

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

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Freedom is relative.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.