I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

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.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

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

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

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.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

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

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

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

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

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.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.