It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn’t danced in television.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

We’re news junkies in my house.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

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

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

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

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.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

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.

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

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

Journalism largely consists of saying ‚Lord Jones is Dead‘ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

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

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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.

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

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.