Society is at odds with itself.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

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

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.

You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

I was not an activist.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

We still have many neighborhoods that are racially identified. We still have many schools that even though the days of state-enforced segregation are gone, segregation because of geographical boundaries remains.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

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

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

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Nothing can be divided into more parts than it can possibly be constituted of. But matter (i.e. finite) cannot be constituted of infinite parts.

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

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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

People like to talk about war.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

No one is pro-abortion.

I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

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.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.