Society is at odds with itself.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

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

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

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

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – meaning primarily the United States – come down to two fundamental issues: ‚What are the accepted and applicable ‚rules of world order,‘ and how do these apply in the case of Kosovo?‘

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.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

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.

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

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

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

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

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

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

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

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

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Education is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.

War is a contagion.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

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

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.

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

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

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Hate crime is not new in the United States.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

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