Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

If I hadn’t been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

The quantity and quality of consciousness, one may say, have always been growing throughout geological times. In this respect man, in whom nervous organisation and therefore psychological powers have attained an undisputed maximum, may be considered, scientifically, as a natural centre of evolution of the primates.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

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

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

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

That’s what I do this for, to secure my family’s future. I don’t care about anything else. I’m able to spoil people, and that’s the best thing.

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.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn’t speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

This election is about who’s going to be the next President of the United States!

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

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

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

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

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.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren’t empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we’re not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

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.

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 world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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.

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

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

There are some loony people in this world!

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.