The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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

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.

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Society is at odds with itself.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Indeed, we’re strongest when the face of America isn’t only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

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

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

Let me tell you what I literally told every world leader I’ve met with, and I’ve met them all: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against America. We have the finest fighting force in the world.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

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

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

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

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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