Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

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.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

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

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.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

America is just downright mean.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

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.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Money has to serve, not to rule.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

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.

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

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

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

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.