No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

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

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

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

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.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It’s very clear.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

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

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man’s intelligence and his comprehension… would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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

People like to talk about war.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

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

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

If we do not lift up women and families, everyone will fall short.