Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

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.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I’m in a world of my own.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

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

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

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 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.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.

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.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

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

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

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

In war there is no substitute for victory.

Cuba came to be the last country to get rid of Spanish colonialism and the first to shake off the heinous imperialist tutelage.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

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.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.