In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.

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.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

A person hears only what they understand.

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

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

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

I guess it’s flattering that everyone believed I was those characters, but it also is dehumanizing.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.

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.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

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

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

The American people have not become heartless.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

Money for me today does not really matter.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

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.

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

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it’s not like that.