No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

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.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you’re starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Words are loaded pistols.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again.

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.

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

Science is nothing but perception.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

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

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

The less you know, the more you believe.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

People do not make wars; governments do.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

See things from the boy’s point of view.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It’s a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

You’ve got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you’ve got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Here in the West, people often don’t like listening to their leaders, even if they are right.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.