It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

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.

Any colour – so long as it’s black.

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don’t get it.

The one thing I couldn’t identify with was the blue cowboy outfit he put on.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body – they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven’t tried that for a while. Maybe this time it’ll work.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

You can say, ‚Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine‘ – well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.

Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.