The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

The truth of Moore’s law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are equally significant.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Well begun is half done.

I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

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

To a guy like me, a laugh is full of information.

You can stroke people with words.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

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.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

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.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

We live in ugly times.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

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

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

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.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

One often makes music to supplement one’s world.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there’s a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we’re going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

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

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

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

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.