If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

People like to talk about war.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

We live in a bewildering world.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

The American people have not become heartless.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there’s so much pressure on you.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

For 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.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

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.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

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.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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

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 lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

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

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.

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

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

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

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.