The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Studies have identified a significant ‚skills gap‘ between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today’s global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The U.S. has strategic and economic interests in Southeast Asia that must be secured. Holding Indochina is essential to securing these interests. Therefore, we must hold Indochina.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

I like to work.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Effective action is always unjust.

My gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

Rockets are cool. There’s no getting around that.

I’m a fry lover.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

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

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology – looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

I need physics more than friends.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.