It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

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

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they’re equally as good at reconciliation.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

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

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

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.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Pop music will never be low brow.

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 think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

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

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

Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

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

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

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.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‚X100PRE‘ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music – it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

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

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

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