Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

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.

There are some loony people in this world!

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The American people have not become heartless.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

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

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.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

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

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

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

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

The French are so into themselves that they don’t even notice you.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

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

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

People love conspiracy theories.

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.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

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

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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.

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