In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

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.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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.

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

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

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

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

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

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

There is too much government today. We’ve got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

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

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

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

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

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

We live in ugly times.

On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there’s no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.

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

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.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

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

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Music, for me, is vital. Punjabi, Bollywood, Sufi, RnB… I listen to it all. When I’m not listening to music, you will find me chatting with friends. Off the field, I just let my instincts take over. I certainly don’t think about batting, or which bowlers I’m going to face.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.