Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

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.

War is the business of barbarians.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

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.

I respect Drake not only as a creative person but as a business mind as well. I think Drake’s important.

Although I don’t like the way the Chinese do business, I continue to do business in China. I have to. They’re the next world power.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

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

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

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.

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.

When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

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.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

What’s with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?