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

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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

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

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I used to dream about taking the ball ‚round the keeper, stopping it on the line, and then getting on my hands and knees and heading it into the net. When I scored against Benfica in the 1968 European Cup final, I nearly did it. I left the keeper for dead, but then I chickened out.

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

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

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

When I look at public opinion, I’m not far out of the mainstream. I’m in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I’ve ever said.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country – we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

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

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

When you’re singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It’s happening.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Children are all foreigners.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

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

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one’s people that has not previously been taken into account.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

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.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

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.

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

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.

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.