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

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

Dissents speak to a future age.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

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

It’s much easier to be successful than it is to be relevant. The tricks won’t keep you relevant. Tricks might keep you popular for a while, but in all honesty, I don’t know how U2 will stay relevant. I know we’ve got a future. I know we can fill stadiums. And yet with every record, I think, ‚Is this it? Are we still relevant?‘

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television – but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

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 future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The society in ‚The Handmaid’s Tale‘ is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.

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

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.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

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.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

We live in a bewildering world.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

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

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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.

The mainstream is always under attack.

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

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Music is always a commentary on society.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

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.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

I’m reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States – for the century, at least.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.