If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‚gentleman gambler‘ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely… There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

A siege is an act of war.

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

When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook.

There is no substitute for victory.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was ‚satisfactory,‘ I would have no hope of ever getting better. How would I know who was the best? How would I know what I was doing differently?

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

For 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.

It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

War is what happens when language fails.

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.

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.

Mine is better than ours.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

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

I think America has always been polarized.

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

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Music is always a commentary on society.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Competition is a sin.

There have been so many great players that I’ve played with, that I’ve played against over the years.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.