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.

People love conspiracy theories.

You’ve got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That’s it; that’s the way we move forward. That’s how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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.‘

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

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

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.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

For me, when you are have people wondering what is next, what is coming out, you are on the right track.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

America is just downright mean.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

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

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.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

I’m not a fortune-teller.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

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.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.