It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

‚WASP‘ is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it’s inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

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.

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The United States never lost a war or won a conference.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The mainstream is always under attack.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

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

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

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

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

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

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

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.

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.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.