Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

The mainstream is always under attack.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.

I want the world to see my body.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

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

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I’m drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

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.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

The working men, I’ll go by and they’ll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, ‚Oh, it’s a girl. She’s got blond hair and she’s not out of shape,‘ and then they say, ‚Gosh, it’s Marilyn Monroe!‘

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

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.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

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

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.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

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

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

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.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

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

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

I’m fat, but I’m thin inside… there’s a thin man inside every fat man.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.