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.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

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.

You don’t have to turn on the TV set. You don’t have to work on the Internet. It’s up to you.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

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

We live in ugly times.

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

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

People like to talk about war.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

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

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Children are all foreigners.

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

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

It isn’t generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn’t generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it’s in the nature of hierarchy.

I didn’t have any children of my own.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

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.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Coffee is a language in itself.