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

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

There are some loony people in this world!

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

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.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

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

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

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

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

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what’s right. Freedom is right.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

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

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

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

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

He who is brave is free.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

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 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.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.