I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

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.

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.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

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.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It’s so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

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.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

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

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

The mainstream is always under attack.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I’m informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I’m a very ardent patriot.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

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.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

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.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

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

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

It’s overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

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.

We’re news junkies in my house.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

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.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.